SB2026031916 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16

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SB2026031916 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16

Published: March 19, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2026031916
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-6176)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in its brotli decompression implementation. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and crash clients with less than 80GB of available memory.


2) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28757)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input when using external parsers via XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References