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RHCOS 4 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.60 (RHSA-2026:96281)

high Nessus Plugin ID 378731

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.60.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:96281 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)

 - openshift-ansible: openshift-ansible: Installer container downloads and executes remote inventory script without integrity verification (CVE-2026-92092)

 - crypto/x509: golang: crypto/x509: Man-in-the-middle attacks via untrusted intermediate certificates (CVE-2026-111943)

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 4.17.60 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:96281.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:96281

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467815

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515862

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2556068

http://www.nessus.org/u?82c8053e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 378731

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2026-96281.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2026

Updated: 11/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Percentile: 98.08

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-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ose-gcp-gcr-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: 11/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-111943, CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-92092

CWE: 295, 494, 606

RHSA: 2026:96281