Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openshift-kubelet (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-OPENSHIFTKUBELET-17882921
- published8 Jul 2026
- disclosed2 Jun 2026
Introduced: 2 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-42504 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift-kubelet package and not the openshift-kubelet package as distributed by RHEL.
Decoding a maliciously-crafted MIME header containing many invalid encoded-words can consume excessive CPU.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484204
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42504
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23262
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23264
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29980
- https://go.dev/cl/774481
- https://go.dev/issue/79217
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/tKs3rmcBcKw
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-5038