RHSA-2026:60449 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.21.31 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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.21.31. See the following advisory for the container images for
this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60477

Security Fix(es):

• github.com/cri-o/cri-o: Fix Bypass for CVE-2022-4318 — /etc/passwd

Injection via HOME env (CVE-2026-15809)

• github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE:

Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object
(CVE-2026-34986)

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 4.21 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.

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/

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.21 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.21 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.21 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2455470 - CVE-2026-34986 github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object
• BZ - 2500846 - CVE-2026-15809 github.com/cri-o/cri-o: Fix Bypass for CVE-2022-4318 ? /etc/passwd Injection via HOME env
• OCPBUGS-112086 - 4.21.z - kube-apiserver thread exhaustion in 4.20 FIPS mode

CVEs

• CVE-2026-15809
• CVE-2026-34986

References

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