RHSA-2026:1540 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.61 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 4.15.

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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.15.61. See the following advisory for the container images for
this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1549

Security Fix(es):

• runc: container escape via 'masked path' abuse due to mount race

conditions (CVE-2025-31133)

• runc: container escape with malicious config due to /dev/console mount

and related races (CVE-2025-52565)

• runc: opencontainers/selinux: container escape and denial of service due

to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects (CVE-2025-52881)

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 4.15 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/4.15/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 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/4.15/html/release_notes/

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.15 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.15 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.15 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.15 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.15 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.15 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2404705 - CVE-2025-31133 runc: container escape via 'masked path' abuse due to mount race conditions
• BZ - 2404708 - CVE-2025-52565 runc: container escape with malicious config due to /dev/console mount and related races
• BZ - 2404715 - CVE-2025-52881 runc: opencontainers/selinux: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects

CVEs

• CVE-2025-31133
• CVE-2025-52565
• CVE-2025-52881

References

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