Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehen von Sicherheitsvorkehrungen
WID-SEC-2025-2490 · first 21.11.2019 · updated 16.07.2026 · CVSS 5,5
What it is about
Die Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform bietet Unternehmen die Möglichkeit der Steuerung ihrer Kubernetes Umgebungen. Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in der Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
Under what conditions?
Only with access to the device or an account on it. Often the second step after a phishing email.
What can happen in the worst case
An attacker could use the vulnerability to
- Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen
Am I affected?
Affected according to the BSI:
- Amazon Linux 2
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu Linux
The installed version is usually shown under “Help → About” or in the device’s admin interface.
What helps?
Install the updates provided by the vendor; details in the sources below.
Is the vulnerability already being exploited?
None of the CVEs is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities. That does not mean there are no attacks, only that none are documented.
Information and sources
- Original BSI advisory (WID)
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:3940 vom 2019-11-20 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:4074 vom 2019-12-03 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:4269 vom 2019-12-17 access.redhat.com
- Meldung auf GitHub vom 2020-01-08 github.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2020:1234 vom 2020-04-01 access.redhat.com
- Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory alas.aws.amazon.com
- Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7851-1 vom 2025-11-05 ubuntu.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:22275 vom 2025-12-05 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:0995 vom 2026-01-30 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:2681 vom 2026-02-16 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:2754 vom 2026-02-16 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:2695 vom 2026-02-16 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:2762 vom 2026-02-16 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:2951 vom 2026-02-18 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:39894 vom 2026-07-15 access.redhat.com
CVE: CVE-2019-16884
Source: BSI warning and information service (CERT-Bund); CISA. The assessment of the conditions is my reading of the BSI text; the external pages are in their original language.