CVE-2024-9676VulnerabilityPublished 5 Feb 2025Updated 6 Sep 2026

Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.15 bug fix and security update

Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database

Mentioned vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-52798

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 4.17.15 when convenient.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

Severity

Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 71% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 4.17.15

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 5 Feb 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Red Hat to 4.17.15.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Red Hat Product Security Red Hat	Affected >=4.17.0 <4.17.15 Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 arm64 openshift4/aws-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9@sha256:fd0ffacaf24c6f575350d75b5d6067e6dcd346e95e842880c185de415fb0f5a5_arm64	Fixed in 4.17.15

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.15 with fixes for these vulnerabilities. Users running versions >=4.17.0 and <4.17.15 should upgrade to 4.17.15 or later using the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Detailed upgrade instructions are available in the official Red Hat OpenShift documentation. No additional mitigations are required beyond applying the official update.

Description

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 container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.15. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0878 Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory. See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for details about these changes: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.17/release_notes/ocp-4-17-release-notes.html Security Fix(es): * Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS) (CVE-2024-9676) * path-to-regexp: path-to-regexp Unpatched `path-to-regexp` ReDoS in 0.1.x (CVE-2024-52798) 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. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.17/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Impact

The symlink traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-9676) in containers/storage can cause Denial of Service conditions in container runtimes Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. The ReDoS vulnerability (CVE-2024-52798) in path-to-regexp can also lead to Denial of Service by exploiting inefficient regular expression processing. Both vulnerabilities could disrupt container platform operations but do not indicate remote code execution or privilege escalation. No known exploits in the wild have been reported.

Summary

This advisory covers security fixes in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.15, specifically addressing CVE-2024-9676, a symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library affecting Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O, which can lead to Denial of Service. It also addresses CVE-2024-52798, a ReDoS vulnerability in the path-to-regexp library version 0.1.x. The vulnerabilities are rated as moderate impact. The advisory provides updated container images and RPM packages for affected architectures and instructs users to upgrade to the fixed versions. The affected versions are OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 releases prior to 4.17.15.

CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #6OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
Implementation · Input Validation
Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.
Architecture and Design
For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks…
Implementation · Input Validation
Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174).
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Path Traversal (opens in a new tab)
Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic (opens in a new tab)
Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls (opens in a new tab)
Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding (opens in a new tab)
Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-1333Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: High
The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.
Architecture and Design
Use regular expressions that do not support backtracking, e.g. by removing nested quantifiers.
System Configuration
Set backtracking limits in the configuration of the regular expression implementation, such as PHP's pcre.backtrack_limit. Also consider limits on execution time for the process.
Implementation
Do not use regular expressions with untrusted input. If regular expressions must be used, avoid using backtracking in the expression.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
File Upload (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.1.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 11 Aug 2026, 20:42 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-22, CWE-1333

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