RHSA-2025:9269 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.18.18 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 Moderate. 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 4.18.18. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:9270

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):

• openshift-api: openshift-controller-manager/build: Build Process in OpenShift Allows Overwriting of Node Pull Credentials (CVE-2024-45497)

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:eca2e3f7de2bd92b18f69547c8f0ad842fdb83f0821f76b8692f2716a86b0bde

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:97b6e135d882c37e73c93d184131dd13a977483a813343a85d1f6c6d21f0b77a

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:445ab3aa3ff4d52e9c032303de8ba4bb15cf5f1c0170fda43de2cd47e54371fc

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:ed6ee0258cdb70583fd3705dca8107793ed3c9380554107c99395678952dbd0a

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 - 2308673 - CVE-2024-45497 openshift-api: openshift-controller-manager/build: Build Process in OpenShift Allows Overwriting of Node Pull Credentials
• OCPBUGS-56015 - Nodepool Stays in pending state in HCP cluster
• OCPBUGS-56125 - oc-mirror v2 stops image deletion if an image is missing.
• OCPBUGS-56166 - hypershift deployment fails on disconnected- ipv6 deployment with ImageDigestMirrorSet
• OCPBUGS-56438 - Bump to Kubernetes 1.31.9
• OCPBUGS-56517 - machine-config ClusterOperator stays Upgradeable=True as new nodes are added
• OCPBUGS-56774 - [knative] Self-provisioner user can not access or create event sources via ODC
• OCPBUGS-56835 - [release-4.18]Backport UPSTREAM: 130047: adjusting loopback certificate validity in kube-apiserver
• OCPBUGS-56900 - The dynamic-system-reserved-calc.sh fails if executed only with `true` parameter
• OCPBUGS-56955 - NodePool fails to start if a management cluster has ImageContentSourcePolicy with specific mirrors
• OCPBUGS-56979 - ccoctl crashes with nil pointer exception when creating Azure managed identity role assignments that already exist
• OCPBUGS-57019 - Cherry-picks for Catalog Tests: Fix JUnit format, rename test suite, and enable Catalog Tests for Sippy/TRT integration
• OCPBUGS-57028 - CLOCK_REALTIME state reports 1 (locked) when both active and inactive interfaces are down in BC/OC HA environment
• OCPBUGS-57057 - [GCP] Error 403: Required 'compute.images.useReadOnly' permission for a custom image attached to additional disks in MachineSet
• OCPBUGS-57093 - [release-4.18] `go mod tidy; go mod vendor` makes changes to staging
• OCPBUGS-57139 - Installation 4.16 cluster in AWS (self manage) with two master subnets failed at bootstrap phase.
• OCPBUGS-57181 - TargetDown Alert and TOKEN_REVIEW: 'GET /metrics' unauthorized, invalid user token in console pod logs
• OCPBUGS-57219 - [4.18] Kubelet metrics endpoints experiencing prolonged outages
• OCPBUGS-57220 - The subnet/instance information of control plane node does not match the actual info AWS console
• OCPBUGS-57273 - Proxy variables are not passed to machine config daemon pods when upgrade strategy is set to inPlace
• OCPBUGS-57306 - AdditionalTrustBundlePolicy still cannot be set in ABI
• OCPBUGS-57314 - Unnecessary churn with OLMv0 operatorgroup clusterrole management
• OCPBUGS-57353 - [release-4.18] VirtualizedTable component is breaking if default sort column (sortColumnIndex) is not available

CVEs

• CVE-2023-40403
• CVE-2024-45497
• CVE-2025-22871
• CVE-2025-31205
• CVE-2025-31257

References

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