CVE-2025-6032
HIGH8.3EPSS 0.22%Podman Improper Certificate Validation; machine missing TLS verification in github.com/containers/podman
Published: 6/25/2025Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
A flaw was found in Podman. The podman machine init command fails to verify the TLS certificate when downloading the VM images from an OCI registry. This issue results in a Man In The Middle attack.
Affected packages (8)
- Debian/podmanfrom 0, < 5.4.2+ds1-2
- Go/github.com/containers/podmanfrom 0
- Go/github.com/containers/podman/v2from 0
- Go/github.com/containers/podman/v3from 0
- Go/github.com/containers/podman/v4>= 4.8.0
- Go/github.com/containers/podman/v4>= 4.8.0, <= 4.9.5
- Go/github.com/containers/podman/v5from 0, < 5.5.2
- Go/github.com/containers/podman/v5from 0, < 5.5.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (20)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6032
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-6032
- PATCHhttps://github.com/containers/podman
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10295
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10549
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10550
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10551
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10668
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11359
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11363
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11677
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11681
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15397
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9726
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9751
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9766
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6032
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372501
- WEBhttps://github.com/containers/podman/commit/726b506acc8a00d99f1a3a1357ecf619a1f798c3
- WEBhttps://github.com/containers/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-65gg-3w2w-hr4h