ESB-2026.3270
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.400000095367432 HIGH
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2026.3270
OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.59 bug fix and security update
7 April 2026
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AUSCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.59
Publisher: Red Hat
Operating System: Red Hat
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2025-69419 CVE-2025-12801
Original Bulletin:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5873
Comment: CVSS (Max): 7.4 CVE-2025-69419 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVSS Source: Red Hat
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS (Max): 0.1% (19th) CVE-2025-69419 2026-04-02
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RHSA-2026:5873 - Security Advisory
Issued: 2026-04-02
Updated: 2026-04-02
Synopsis
Openshift container platform 4.16.59 bug fix and security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.59 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 4.16.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. 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 4.16.59. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2026:5872
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/4.16/html
/release_notes/
Security Fix(es):
o nfs-utils: rpc.mountd in the nfs-utils privilege escalation
(CVE-2025-12801)
o openssl: OpenSSL: Arbitrary code execution due to out-of-bounds write in
PKCS#12 processing (CVE-2025-69419)
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 4.16 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/4.16/html-single/
updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.
Solution
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/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:f2f70544d0d62fbf00d94cba09e89ca5bbf44169490ec86ff1f4f48ccf6401e1
(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is
sha256:d93e0cf6a690edb5b57d06044af75645ee966bf2a329b32979f62923afece8d9
(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is
sha256:4fe2d116fc96fd0713486b4f199cbccd8fb10fd196c09926717fcc99fe4cd914
(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is
sha256:ea723d901035177236056cfbb6341a431d65f7ef56c360fdc021bd47aab24810
All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/html-single/
updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.
Affected Products
o Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 for RHEL 9 x86_64
o Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.16 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
o Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.16 for RHEL 9
s390x
o Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.16 for RHEL 9 aarch64
Fixes
o BZ - 2413081 - CVE-2025-12801 nfs-utils: rpc.mountd in the nfs-utils
privilege escalation
o BZ - 2430386 - CVE-2025-69419 openssl: OpenSSL: Arbitrary code execution
due to out-of-bounds write in PKCS#12 processing
CVEs
o CVE-2025-12801
o CVE-2025-69419
References
o https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
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