RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.74 (RHSA-2026:89713)

high Nessus Plugin ID 373532

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.74.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:89713 advisory.

- net/http/internal/http2: golang: golang.org/x/net: Go HTTP/2: Denial of Service via malformed SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE frame (CVE-2026-33814)

- cri-o: cri-o: Sandbox state poisoning via pod annotations may expose runtime socket (CVE-2026-62146)

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

Solution

Update the RHCOS OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.74 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:89713.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 373532

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2026-89713.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/29/2026

Updated: 10/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8:coreos, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ose-aws-ecr-image-credential-provider, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ose-azure-acr-image-credential-provider

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-62146

CWE: 501, 606

RHSA: 2026:89713

Detections

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