RHSA-2025:9725 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.18.19 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 4.18.19. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9726

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):

• glibc: static setuid binary dlopen may incorrectly search LD_LIBRARY_PATH (CVE-2025-4802)

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:e6d80b9ab85b17b47e90cb8de1b9ad0e3fe457780148629d329d532ef902d222

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f9e0774cbbbd6e8cef31bb00b1bd13fc4e8ca94c552dacad15d7b90384b4bf9e

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:a412f58cf7f7459c37a9352079ccb4c22b271c6b544bc992e8a2a92b3f020df8

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:db9ffaf79548b7a3d5399ce98c0375c4bf9b8a4039cce46b6ebe8d1ac102d149

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 - 2367468 - CVE-2025-4802 glibc: static setuid binary dlopen may incorrectly search LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• OCPBUGS-36173 - Secret key with binary file changes when edited via Console
• OCPBUGS-44458 - Sync stable branch for cluster-api-provider-openstack into release-4.18
• OCPBUGS-45869 - [Premerge test] Removing OCP BYO external oidc to revert to OAuth IDP caused co/console degraded with AuthStatusHandlerDegraded
• OCPBUGS-54463 - MCN desired config is not updated when we use OCL
• OCPBUGS-56251 - [release-4.18] Prepare for alertmanager v1 no longer supported in Prometheus v3
• OCPBUGS-56797 - [Nutanix] nil error displayed when setting a not exist value in preloadedOSImageName field
• OCPBUGS-57106 - Node pending to reboot due to error in syncing cache for *v1.EgressFirewall informer in OCP with 300-500 worker nodes
• OCPBUGS-57329 - Perma failing tests of e2e-aws-ovn-tls-13
• OCPBUGS-57507 - node-image create changes directory permissions
• OCPBUGS-57580 - vsphere cloud credentials not syncing correctly
• OCPBUGS-57743 - Topology view shows "TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'metadata')"
• OCPBUGS-57900 - MCC complains about v1 MachineOSConfig in default featureset
• OCPBUGS-58047 - Whereabouts cert token rotation

CVEs

• CVE-2023-52623
• CVE-2023-52662
• CVE-2024-26638
• CVE-2024-26669
• CVE-2024-26939
• CVE-2024-35838
• CVE-2024-35847
• CVE-2024-36917
• CVE-2024-41042
• CVE-2024-56615
• CVE-2024-58099
• CVE-2025-4802
• CVE-2025-6032
• CVE-2025-21764

References

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