SB2026020356 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 

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SB2026020356 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18

Published: February 3, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2026020356
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Return of Wrong Status Code (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-5987)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of the wrong status code returned by the OpenSSL within the chacha20_poly1305_set_key() function when using the ChaCha20 cipher with the OpenSSL library. A remote user can force the library to partially initialize cipher context, leading to an undefined application's behavior.


2) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-9714)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation within the xmlXPathRunEval() function in xpath.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crated XML data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References