RHSA-2025:7863 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.18.14 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.14. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:7865

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory. See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/release_notes/

Security Fix(es):

• golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token

parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws (CVE-2025-22868)

• openshift-console: OpenShift Console: Server-Side Request Forgery

(CVE-2024-6538)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html/release_notes/

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests may be found at https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags.

The sha values for the release are as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:78c0475ba249e03b0ed5b3d3cca619020a2996fb75efb9e7b5a2d5972fbdac7c

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:78c0475ba249e03b0ed5b3d3cca619020a2996fb75efb9e7b5a2d5972fbdac7c

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:b8fd429a9b3013450a156c636e7e6569f5c1ecf95a8cfa5d2554275a9665054b

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:57e7ac3ce11ec15b2e1ca16ecbe06e903a6699cdd7a0bc4d2720128c71138959

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.18/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.18 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.18 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.18 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.18 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.18 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.18 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2296057 - CVE-2024-6538 openshift-console: OpenShift Console: Server-Side Request Forgery
• BZ - 2348366 - CVE-2025-22868 golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws
• OCPBUGS-50628 - Component Readiness: UDN isolation tests in origin are permafailing on nodes using cgroupsv1
• OCPBUGS-50840 - Installer azure panics if there's insufficient permissions
• OCPBUGS-53172 - Include init containers in readiness count if ready and started is true
• OCPBUGS-53221 - Setting userTags in the install-config file for AWS does not support all AWS valid characters
• OCPBUGS-54663 - [4.18] The default value of 'pull-progress-timeout' is too small
• OCPBUGS-54899 - OpenShift Pipelines / Tekton Results shows TaskRuns from previous PipelineRuns of the same name
• OCPBUGS-55158 - /usr/bin/afterburn is missing on the node
• OCPBUGS-55267 - Bump to Kubernetes 1.31.8
• OCPBUGS-55338 - Provide error report from ingress-to-route controller
• OCPBUGS-55383 - MAPI machine has uninitialized taints when using custom dhcp on AWS (and CAPI machine stuck in Provisioned)
• OCPBUGS-55639 - Backport Pull Request #127757
• OCPBUGS-55667 - aws/edge failing e2e test: [sig-network][Feature:tap] should create a pod with a tap interface
• OCPBUGS-55699 - Empty proxy variables are causing issues during the build
• OCPBUGS-55794 - IBI Unit test failures
• OCPBUGS-55938 - Ramdisk logs are unreadable and unparseable
• OCPBUGS-56098 - olm-operator pod going to CLBO with a message "detected that every object is labelled, exiting to re-start the process"
• OCPBUGS-56110 - Stop firing etcd alerts on 10% of Azure cluster upgrades
• OCPBUGS-56156 - EgressIPs are not assigned to nodes following node scale down / scale up operation

CVEs

• CVE-2023-52492
• CVE-2023-52594
• CVE-2023-52756
• CVE-2023-52813
• CVE-2024-0340
• CVE-2024-6538
• CVE-2024-26840
• CVE-2024-26892
• CVE-2024-35877
• CVE-2024-35912
• CVE-2024-47668
• CVE-2024-52005
• CVE-2024-53141
• CVE-2024-53920
• CVE-2025-22868

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important