(RHSA-2021:2431) Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.41 security update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat’s cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.5.41. See the following advisory for the container images for
this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2430

Security Fix(es):

• jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. (CVE-2021-21642)

• jetty: local temporary directory hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2020-27216)

• jetty: buffer not correctly recycled in Gzip Request inflation (CVE-2020-27218)

• jetty: request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of “quality” parameters may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27223)

• jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not correctly perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints. (CVE-2021-21643)

• jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: does not require POST requests for an HTTP endpoint, resulting in a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. (CVE-2021-21644)

• jenkins-2-plugins/config-file-provider: Does not perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints. (CVE-2021-21645)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• Placeholder bug for OCP 4.5.41 rpm release (BZ#1972114)