Missing Authentication for Critical Function The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openshift-clients (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENSHIFTCLIENTS-13858291
- published8 Nov 2025
- disclosed12 Aug 2025
Introduced: 12 Aug 2025
CVE-2025-5187 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift-clients package and not the openshift-clients package as distributed by RHEL.
A vulnerability exists in the NodeRestriction admission controller in Kubernetes clusters where node users can delete their corresponding node object by patching themselves with an OwnerReference to a cluster-scoped resource. If the OwnerReference resource does not exist or is subsequently deleted, the given node object will be deleted via garbage collection.