CVE-2025-6032

Podman: podman missing tls verification

HIGH 8.3

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.52 % · percentile 44 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-06-24 13:50 UTC
Updated: 2026-10-12 19:53 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Deferred

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-65gg-3w2w-hr4h — Podman Improper Certificate Validation; machine missing TLS verification
GO-2025-3777 — Podman Improper Certificate Validation; machine missing TLS verification in github.com/containers/podman

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-19013
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-6032

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0789 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
podman	affected 4.8.0 < 5.5.2
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	unaffected 6:5.4.0-12.el10_0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 8100020250625105344.afee755d < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 5:5.4.0-12.el9_6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support	unaffected 4:4.9.4-18.el9_4.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16	unaffected 4:4.9.4-14.rhaos4.16.el8 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16	unaffected 416.94.202507222002-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17	unaffected 5:5.2.2-8.rhaos4.17.el8 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17	unaffected 417.94.202507132309-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18	unaffected 418.94.202507221927-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18	unaffected 5:5.2.2-9.rhaos4.18.el9 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19	unaffected 4.19.9.6.202507152218-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19	unaffected 5:5.4.0-6.rhaos4.19.el9 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20	unaffected 4.20.9.6.202509251656-0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD