diff --git a/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 3abc06363e28..5a31293b79dd 100644
--- a/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.25.2-debian-11-r3" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.25.2-debian-11-r4" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/kubectl" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="kubectl" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     sha256sum -c kubectl-1.25.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256 && \
     tar -zxf kubectl-1.25.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz -C /opt/bitnami --strip-components=2 --no-same-owner --wildcards '*/files' && \
     rm -rf kubectl-1.25.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz kubectl-1.25.2-0-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11.tar.gz.sha256
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
+RUN apt-get autoremove --purge -y curl && \
+    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && \
     apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists /var/cache/apt/archives
 RUN chmod g+rwX /opt/bitnami
 RUN mkdir /.kube && chmod g+rwX /.kube
diff --git a/bitnami/kubectl/README.md b/bitnami/kubectl/README.md
index 8ec13c4b3f5f..03369bd78b9d 100644
--- a/bitnami/kubectl/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/kubectl/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ $ docker run --name kubectl bitnami/kubectl:latest
 Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags [in our documentation page](https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/understand-rolling-tags-containers/).
 
 
-* [`1.25`, `1.25-debian-11`, `1.25.2`, `1.25.2-debian-11-r3`, `latest` (1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`1.25`, `1.25-debian-11`, `1.25.2`, `1.25.2-debian-11-r4`, `latest` (1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.25/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`1.24`, `1.24-debian-11`, `1.24.6`, `1.24.6-debian-11-r4` (1.24/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.24/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`1.23`, `1.23-debian-11`, `1.23.12`, `1.23.12-debian-11-r4` (1.23/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.23/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 * [`1.22`, `1.22-debian-11`, `1.22.15`, `1.22.15-debian-11-r3` (1.22/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kubectl/1.22/debian-11/Dockerfile)