CVE-2025-6032 — Improper Certificate Validation in Containers Podman V5

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation9 documents7 sources
Severity
8.3HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Podman Project PodmanGithub.com Containers Podman V5Github.com Containers Podman V4
Timeline
PublishedJun 24
Latest updateJul 28

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianpodman_project/podman< 5.4.2+ds1-2+1
▶Gogithub.com/containers_podman_v44.8.0 — 4.9.5+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
Podman Improper Certificate Validation; machine missing TLS verification in github.com/containers/podman↗2025-07-28
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OSV
Podman Improper Certificate Validation; machine missing TLS verification↗2025-06-25
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GHSA
Podman Improper Certificate Validation; machine missing TLS verification↗2025-06-25
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OSV
CVE-2025-6032: A flaw was found in Podman↗2025-06-24
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CVEList
Podman: podman missing tls verification↗2025-06-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
podman: podman missing TLS verification↗2025-06-24
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Microsoft
Podman: podman missing tls verification↗2025-06-10
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Debian
CVE-2025-6032: libpod - A flaw was found in Podman. The podman machine init command fails to verify the ...↗2025
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