RHSA-2026:18913 — Security Advisory

An update for containernetworking-plugins is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Container Network Interface (CNI) project consists of a specification and libraries for writing plug-ins for configuring network interfaces in Linux containers, along with a number of supported plug-ins. CNI concerns itself only with network connectivity of containers and removing allocated resources when the container is deleted.

Security Fix(es):

• crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate (CVE-2025-61729)

• golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726)

• crypto/tls: Unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.