RHSA-2026:79320 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.20.42 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 4.20.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2026:79315

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/4.20/html/release_notes/

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 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/4.20/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:d20702b31fc7c2b0954042bd4723414f1f54b121fe9813dd2c06f9325088d0b7

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5e846d6562a36c5222ddb36f14e9e3f53152bf25da8f24d329cf6cef6a81716f

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:2b2a6c9ef7fcaa549591cd3c7de5fc67f19fb41d76b25a82e717b6dbd2138e15

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:2f1aba36c7ae3b073d6d6e3031f83adef10968b4d76cca1638a83d2ef5fcfaa8

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 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/4.20/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Fixes

• BZ - 2467815
• BZ - 2480757
• OCPBUGS-113993 - Ignition route missing from initial router config causes NodePool ignition failures on Azure due to NIC contention
• OCPBUGS-127495 - ContainerRuntimeConfig controller should limit the volume of preserved conditions
• OCPBUGS-128386 - [release-4.20] OCP 4.21 HCCO drops Azure ingress load balancer scope
• OCPBUGS-128460 - MachineOSConfig.status.currentImagePullSpec not refreshed when machine-os-builder reuses an existing MachineOSBuild, causing OCL MachineConfigPools to hang indefinitely in Updating state
• OCPBUGS-128658 - CLONE - Degraded MCP as generated-kubelet is generated with an old controller version
• OCPBUGS-128980 - Mac Flapping Observed for EgressIP when nodes being rebooted
• OCPBUGS-129017 - [4.20] openshift-operator-controller filling up ephemeral disk
• OCPBUGS-129090 - [release-4.20] - HyperShift scale from zero failing cluster-autoscaler RBAC
• OCPBUGS-31495 - Rule on top of a vlan on top of bond is not working
• OCPBUGS-97800 - [release 4.20]Rule on top of a vlan on top of bond is not working

CVEs

• CVE-2026-27136
• CVE-2026-33814

References

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