CVE-2025-6032 | Podman: podman missing tls verification

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.

Published: 2025-06-24 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-6032 is rated Moderate Risk (49.2/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.22%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-6032

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-20 0.05% 0.22% +0.17%
2 2026-01-18 0.03% 0.05% +0.02%
3 2025-11-21 0.03%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-6032

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.3 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:H)
Even with access, the exploit needs extra luck, timing, or a fussy environment to actually work.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
1.6 6.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-6032

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-6032

GHSA-65gg-3w2w-hr4h · Severity: high · Ecosystem: go — Podman Improper Certificate Validation; machine missing TLS verification

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-6032

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-6032 unimportant priority: Debian including 2 source packages (libpod, podman), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-6032
redhat high https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6032
suse high CVE-2025-6032 severity important: SUSE including 305 source package names (2.0.4-5.5.357:podman-4.9.5-150500.3.46.1, 2.1.3-6.94:podman-4.9.5-8.1, …), 433 product×package rows across 87 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/baremetal-os-container, … (87 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Fixed 193, Known Not Affected 5, First Fixed 4. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6032/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-6032 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (podman), 6 status rows across 6 suites (jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream): DNE 3, needs-triage 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-6032

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-6032

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-6032

URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10295
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10549
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10550
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10551
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10668
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11359
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11363
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11677
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11681
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15397
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9726
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9751
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9766
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6032
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372501
https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/726b506acc8a00d99f1a3a1357ecf619a1f798c3
https://github.com/containers/podman/security/advisories/GHSA-65gg-3w2w-hr4h
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