RHSA-2025:8280 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.32 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 4.17.

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 4.17.32. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8281

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/4.17/html/release_notes/

Security Fix(es):

• golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html (CVE-2024-45338)
• zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c (CVE-2016-9840)
• 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 4.17 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/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/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 sha256:0c2421a241e95f56895906885e7f7e53cb1520ee6a82db5cdeea98f5f65457d7

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:542000db3d3c126ab0c88f24e7e238de66a743026b95b603d311204dcb36132e

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:7482c48c0cdefbe9f88e0ddd748a6f00e1d2cc1fbd395a8270425a48d758a0c2

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:930640a1fabd9bd84756bd35e5e5518e3e5576d5a22954698b6456729fb996e8

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1402345 - CVE-2016-9840 zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c
• BZ - 2296057 - CVE-2024-6538 openshift-console: OpenShift Console: Server-Side Request Forgery
• BZ - 2333122 - CVE-2024-45338 golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html
• BZ - 2348366 - CVE-2025-22868 golang.org/x/oauth2/jws: Unexpected memory consumption during token parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2/jws
• OCPBUGS-49390 - [4.17] Routes with SHA1 CA certificate break HAProxy reloading
• OCPBUGS-54664 - [4.17] The default value of 'pull-progress-timeout' is too small
• OCPBUGS-55740 - [4.17]T-GM traceability flags are incorrect in some cases
• OCPBUGS-55756 - Deployment created via OCP console fails to trigger on Imagestream change
• OCPBUGS-55795 - Samples Operator should only watch required ClusterOperators
• OCPBUGS-55800 - Samples Operator should only update lastTransitionTime when status has changed
• OCPBUGS-55841 - [4.17] Enable RHCOS IBM Secure Execution installation on IBM Z17
• OCPBUGS-56395 - error from generateAndValidateRenderedMachineConfig function can be misleading
• OCPBUGS-56655 - OCP on Azure MachineSet scaling up fails after upgrade to 4.15.48+ on non zonal region
• OCPBUGS-56665 - Add hot loop detection in MSBIC
• OCPBUGS-56738 - Fix promtool analyze block shows metric name with 0 cardinality

CVEs

• CVE-2016-9840
• CVE-2021-47495
• CVE-2023-52622
• CVE-2023-52703
• CVE-2023-52840
• CVE-2024-6538
• CVE-2024-12133
• CVE-2024-12243
• CVE-2024-26901
• CVE-2024-26907
• CVE-2024-26973
• CVE-2024-27013
• CVE-2024-35946
• CVE-2024-45338
• CVE-2024-57876
• CVE-2025-2784
• CVE-2025-4948
• CVE-2025-21756
• CVE-2025-22868
• CVE-2025-32049
• CVE-2025-32914
• CVE-2025-37749

References

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