CVE-2025-6032

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.

Reserved 2025-06-12 | Published 2025-06-24 | Updated 2025-06-24 | Assigner redhat

Problem types

Improper Certificate Validation

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Timeline

2025-06-12:	Reported to Red Hat.
2025-06-24:	Made public.

Credits

This issue was discovered by Paul Holzinger (Red Hat Inc.).

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6032 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372501 (RHBZ#2372501) issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2025-6032)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-6032)

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