RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.44 (RHSA-2025:0648)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214789

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.44.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0648 advisory.

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 4.15.44. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0646

Security Fix(es):

* cri-o: Checkpoint restore can be triggered from different namespaces (CVE-2024-8676)

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 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.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.44 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:0648.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2313842

http://www.nessus.org/u?641e41b8

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0648

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214789

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0648.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2025

Updated: 1/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8676

CWE: 285

RHSA: 2025:0648