Qualys Cloud Agent Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4.2.5

April 18, 2025

New Features

There are no new features for this release.

Cloud Agent Enhancements

Updated Base Image for Third-party Software

With this release, we have updated the base image used for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS Cloud Agent to update the latest versions of third-party packages.

Updated Cloud Agent Privileges

With this release, we have updated SELinux securityContext to ensure that Cloud Agent uses minimal system privileges. Earlier, Cloud Agent used the highest privileges.

We have made the following changes to the Cloud Agent yaml:

  • Updated default value of allowPrivilegedContainer parameter to false.
  • Commented out the allowPrivilegeEscalation: true and privileged: true parameters from the securityContext section.

Behavior Changes

There are no behavior changes in this release.

Platform Coverage Support

There is no new platform coverage added in this release.

Issues Addressed

There is no notable and important issue(s) for this release.

Known Issues

There are no known limitations in this release.