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CVE-2025-4565VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.4 security and extras update

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-4565· High 8.2

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.2 High : upgrade Red Hat protobuf to 6.31.1 soon.

Data as of 31 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
8.2High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 17% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 6.31.1
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 16 Jun 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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 31 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade protobuf to 6.31.1.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
PyPIprotobufpkg:pypi/protobufOther threatsAffected
  • <6.31.1
Fixed in
  • 6.31.1

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AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated RPM packages and container images as part of OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.4 to address this vulnerability. The vendor provides detailed upgrade instructions via the OpenShift CLI or web console and documentation for cluster upgrades. No additional mitigations are specified beyond applying the official updates.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.4 includes a security update addressing an unbounded recursion vulnerability in the python-protobuf package (CVE-2025-4565). This vulnerability could potentially cause issues related to unbounded recursion in Python Protobuf processing. Red Hat has released updated RPM packages and container images to fix this issue and recommends all OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 users upgrade to these updated versions.

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