CVE-2025-14443 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.5) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in github.com/openshift/openshift-apiserver. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.
openshift-apiserver: SSRF via Missing IP/Network-Range Validation in User-Supplied Image References
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-14443.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
A flaw was found in ose-openshift-apiserver. This vulnerability allows internal network enumeration, service discovery, limited information disclosure, and potential Denial of Service (DoS) through Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) due to missing IP address and network-range validation when processing user-supplied image references.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/openshift/openshift-apiserver | all versions | No fix |
| 🐹Go | github.com/openshift/openshift-apiserver | all versions | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/openshift/openshift-apiserver, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
The records we use list no patched version of github.com/openshift/openshift-apiserver for CVE-2025-14443. Check the maintainer's advisory, and where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range.
Mitigate without a patch
Restrict outbound requests from the affected component to an allowlist of hosts, block access to link-local and internal address ranges at the network layer, and require authentication on internal services so a forged request cannot reach them unauthenticated.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
The Red Hat Product Security team has assessed the severity of this vulnerability as moderate, due to the ability of authenticated users to trigger arbitrary outbound network connections from the OpenShift API server. Successful exploitation allows attackers to enumerate internal cluster services, probe private…
Possible mitigations for this flaw include: - removing the permissions that allow users to use the ImageStreamImport feature or explicitly only allowing trusted users to access the feature. - explicitly set the apiserver's ImageStreamImport allow-list to trusted image registries. (i.e. `oc patch image.config.openshift.io/cluster --type=merge -p '{"spec":{"allowedRegistriesForImport":[{"domainName": "docker.io"}, {"domainName": "quay.io"}]}}'`) - Set the apiserver's ImageStreamImport to deny all uses. (`oc patch image.config.openshift.io/cluster --type=merge -p '{"spec":{"allowedRegistriesForImport":[{"domainName": "-"}]}}'`)Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2025-14443 (CC BY 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
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