RHSA-2025:8224

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2025-05-27 17:21 - Updated: 2026-03-19 20:40
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers 10.18.1 product release
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: The components for Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers 10.18.1 are now available
Details: Red Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers allows you to deploy Windows container workloads running on Windows Server containers.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
CVE-2025-22869

A flaw was found in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package. SSH clients and servers are vulnerable to increased resource consumption, possibly leading to memory exhaustion and a DoS. This can occur during key exchange when the other party is slow to respond during key exchange.

7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Vendor Fix For Windows Machine Config Operator upgrades, see the following documentation: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.18/windows_containers/windows-node-upgrades.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8224
Workaround This flaw can be mitigated when using the client only connecting to trusted servers.
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