RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.44 (RHSA-2025:0648)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 311895

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0648 advisory.

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

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 RHCOS 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: Critical

ID: 311895

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

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

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: 5.2

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Threat Score: 6.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

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

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