RHSA-2026:25206 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.22.1 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 4.22.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2026:25204

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/4.22/html/release_notes/

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 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/4.22/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:a15674d407c156561629987807f6b3e827772c6d2ef51dd226a6114871f23844

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:15fe037fc5d8ae338a8eb12b1577454cd6ed5b85fbe17fd2554e02f474b965ca

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5abc76754299f26d72f19ad77078b96819890badc2015d66ddd48da909cd141f

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:4bb7a44c5d17f11dd02851c91dc164dea4cc4d7026fd4be70ebdf19431a41ca7

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 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/4.22/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Fixes

• BZ - 2455470
• OCPBUGS-66994 - Upgrading causes VMs using a ovn-k8s-cni-overlay localnet NAD to lose connectivity due to a missing logical port
• OCPBUGS-67159 - IP/port collision in the machine network created by cluster-api-provider-openstack
• OCPBUGS-74421 - OVE UI: Fix rendezvousIP field name in error message
• OCPBUGS-83607 - Bump Kubernetes v1.35.4 to release-4.22
• OCPBUGS-84243 - [4.22] Add VAC test in azure-disk csi CI from 4.22
• OCPBUGS-84369 - [release-4.22] Ironic unneccesarily attempts to boot ramdisk for service steps that results in a maintenance hardware driven reboot
• OCPBUGS-84807 - [release-4.22] create-namespace.cy.ts flakes due to race condition with installation mode radio button
• OCPBUGS-84811 - [release-4.22] - Helm upgrade/rollback redirects to non-existent /helm-releases/ns/{namespace} route
• OCPBUGS-84963 - [release-4.22] ConsoleDataView should have both top and bottom pagination controls
• OCPBUGS-85015 - [4.22] HCP Kubevirt default ingress endpointslice not ready after VM is rebooted
• OCPBUGS-85102 - MachineSet scale subresource: invalid labelSelectorPath breaks HPA / external autoscalers
• OCPBUGS-85125 - Fixed broken test and simplified some logic
• OCPBUGS-85127 - Degraded MCP as generated-kubelet is generated with an old controller version
• OCPBUGS-85499 - Bump Kubernetes v1.35.5 to release-4.22
• OCPBUGS-85507 - Console availability during upgrade (insufficient replicas)
• OCPBUGS-85532 - Manila CSI driver node plugin fatally exits on startup when NFS plugin socket is not yet ready
• OCPBUGS-85626 - TestNoReboot is broken
• OCPBUGS-85708 - OpenStack limits are notably lower than other platforms
• OCPBUGS-85962 - The net namespace was deleted, but its associated file remains in the `/var/run/netns` directory, preventing a POD from starting
• OCPBUGS-86024 - PerformanceProfile degraded after master nodes reboot in MNO
• OCPBUGS-86039 - Control Plane PKI Operator Sets Certificate Revoked Before KAS Changes Propagated
• OCPBUGS-86047 - Manually uncordoned nodes are not automatically re-cordoned
• OCPBUGS-86118 - [release-4.22] Add unit and e2e test coverage for cert rotation redeployment (OCPBUGS-63502 follow-up)
• OCPBUGS-86222 - [release-4.22] OpenAPI v2 spec (~50MB+) re-downloaded without conditional requests on large clusters
• OCPBUGS-86227 - [release-4.22] Permission error showed up on some resources page when normal user without project accessed pages.
• OCPBUGS-86239 - [release-4.22] Dashboard Prometheus queries poll every 15 seconds regardless of cluster size
• OCPBUGS-86247 - High latency spikes on cyclictest for 4.22 12h KPI runs - stalld
• OCPBUGS-86258 - [release 4.22] - [Below the sea UI] Static network config propagating to local UI cannot be changed
• OCPBUGS-86262 - MCPs should degrade or otherwise present an error when a package install is not successful
• OCPBUGS-86293 - update ingress-firewall-node version to 4.22
• OCPBUGS-86297 - OCP4.18.3 - NNCP policy with captured names based on matched rules has errantly overrwritten and injected transient network profiles created by configure-ovs.sh (breaking existing network setup)
• OCPBUGS-86353 - [release-4.22] Invalid core CAPI cluster webhook deployed on IBM cloud
• OCPBUGS-86437 - [release 4.22] - [Below the sea UI] Operators section should not be displayed on review and installation progress pages when no operators are selected
• OCPBUGS-86440 - [release 4.22] - [Below the sea UI] Remove Arbiter button from "Encryption of installation disks"
• OCPBUGS-86566 - Update MetalLB UI install guidance from testing
• OCPBUGS-86578 - hypershift install render embeds private key material in output, causing secret conflicts in GitOps workflows
• OCPBUGS-86580 - [release-4.22] - Terminal - opt key acts as "meta" key in macOS
• OCPBUGS-86653 - [release-4.22] kube-state-metrics panic: interface conversion cache.DeletedFinalStateUnknown not *unstructured.Unstructured
• OCPBUGS-86688 - [release-4.22] OCP Default->TechPreview switch breaks namespace deletion on Metal3, due to Cluster API CRD conflicts/conversion
• OCPBUGS-86700 - Re-enable operator-install-single-namespace.cy.ts e2e test disabled for createRoot adoption
• OCPBUGS-86732 - CLONE - Remove the tests in MCO that use base images older than 4.13
• OCPBUGS-86773 - [release-4.22][TPNU] cluster-machine-approver should use feature-gate annotation for CAPI manifests rather than feature-set
• OCPBUGS-86784 - [release-4.22] "Something wrong happened" n is not iterable showcasing in Openshift web console during NNCP creation
• OCPBUGS-86794 - [OCP-Appliance] [4.22] fails mirroring operator due to missing .sig attachments on registry.connect.redhat.com
• OCPBUGS-86813 - [release 4.22] - [OVE] Custom manifests are broken in local Assisted UI
• OCPBUGS-86818 - [release-4.22] Manage runtime extractor deployment directly in IO
• OCPBUGS-86865 - OCL test suite has some flakes
• OCPBUGS-86870 - [Automated] Update AMI Whitelist
• OCPBUGS-86893 - Two rendered machine configs were created in an upgrade
• OCPBUGS-86898 - KCM's performance is severely degraded on large critical production clusters, causing alerts to fire and general slowness.
• OCPBUGS-86985 - Backport of OCP-88366 and OCP-88814 Automation
• OCPBUGS-86990 - Flaky TestPrometheusMetrics/openshift-state-metrics test in CMO end-to-end tests
• OCPBUGS-87158 - [4.22] e2e: refactor multi-NUMA skip conditions in functests
• OCPBUGS-87163 - Remove trailing newline (\n) characters in klog message strings
• OCPBUGS-87165 - [release-4.22] containernetworkplugins: Build root image tag consistency with ART build
• OCPBUGS-87806 - oc-mirror v2 attempts to retrieve images from registry.redhat.io in disk to mirror mode
• OCPBUGS-87811 - [release-4.22] Backport automation fix to relase-4.22

CVEs

• CVE-2026-34986

References

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