- Issued:
- 2026-07-28
- Updated:
- 2026-07-28
RHSA-2026:44267 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
OpenShift Container Platform 4.21.26 bug fix and security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.21.26 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 4.21.
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 4.21.26. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2026:44260
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/4.21/html/release_notes/
Solution
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 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/4.21/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:f2cd6a3878eade92951168bd9491cc4828f02e41e41c4d7fad8d7c7948156304
(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:6b80f7504b16dd1f5e82914b27fde5fec70f5f982c7bef37ed158c5374e00b5c
(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:4661974ec3f832c78905aa8b26833bd7f094072cb50e23bffd533b7310d05b35
(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e92f91e7d484df0c13799bec4993e1a741c7b05a395fe61a2b711aa3d855a620
All OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 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/4.21/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.
Affected Products
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Fixes
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- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-87815 - CLONE - VSphere and Nutanix MachinePool optional slice fields missing omitempty JSON tag
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-90523 - [release-4.21] Use AdminPolicyBasedExternalRoute CR for external gateway test
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-93806 - Autosizing causes control plane node to reboot twice during upgrade
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-94077 - Backport collector:node_scrape_collector_success:avg telemetry metric
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-94092 - Ingress Node Firewall Operator delays IngressNodeFirewallNodeState creation after node replacement and leaves stale NodeState resource
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-94189 - [release-4.21] Missing INFO log calls alongside event recorder
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98398 - release-4.21 UDN - Controller pod-selector-address-set-manager-addrset fail to set addresses for address set.
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98628 - Update Konflux release version
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98747 - [release-4.21] Remove --enable-interconnect flag from OVN-K manifests
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98966 - [release-4.21] Bump to Istio v1.27.8
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-99163 - [release-4.21] Insights popup severity links don't show issue count on Cluster Dashboard
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-99165 - [release-4.21] Placeholder bug for branch sync
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- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-87815 - CLONE - VSphere and Nutanix MachinePool optional slice fields missing omitempty JSON tag
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-90523 - [release-4.21] Use AdminPolicyBasedExternalRoute CR for external gateway test
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-93806 - Autosizing causes control plane node to reboot twice during upgrade
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-94077 - Backport collector:node_scrape_collector_success:avg telemetry metric
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-94092 - Ingress Node Firewall Operator delays IngressNodeFirewallNodeState creation after node replacement and leaves stale NodeState resource
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-94189 - [release-4.21] Missing INFO log calls alongside event recorder
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98398 - release-4.21 UDN - Controller pod-selector-address-set-manager-addrset fail to set addresses for address set.
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98628 - Update Konflux release version
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98747 - [release-4.21] Remove --enable-interconnect flag from OVN-K manifests
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-98966 - [release-4.21] Bump to Istio v1.27.8
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-99163 - [release-4.21] Insights popup severity links don't show issue count on Cluster Dashboard
- https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-99165 - [release-4.21] Placeholder bug for branch sync
CVEs
The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.