Bug 2372501 (CVE-2025-6032)

Summary: CVE-2025-6032 podman: podman missing TLS verification
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: cevich, ddarrah, dshea, gsuckevi, jhonce, jnovy, mheon, pholzing, security-response-team, tsweeney, vnaruka, ypu
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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.
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Deadline: 2025-06-24   

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-12 15:24:27 UTC
The podman machine init command fails to verify the TLS certificate when downloading the VM images from an OCI registry (which it does by default since 5.0.0) allowing a possible Man In The Middle attack.

Requirements to exploit:
Access to the network path between registry and client to perform a MITM
attack.

Version affected: podman >= 4.8.0
Code was added in commit ea4775e, however it is only used as default way
to pull images since 5.0.0.

Comment 2 Tom Sweeney 2025-06-17 17:19:46 UTC
Just noting that the code with the issue was first introduced in Podman v4.8 and RHEL 8.10 & 9.4.  Also in OCP 4.16.  Earlier versions of OCP and RHEL are not affected by this issue.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-01 02:51:41 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19

Via RHSA-2025:9751 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9751

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-02 04:08:43 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18

Via RHSA-2025:9726 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9726

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-02 04:10:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16

Via RHSA-2025:9766 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9766

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-08 00:56:23 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:10549 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10549

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-08 01:04:25 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:10550 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10550

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-08 01:16:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:10551 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10551

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-08 20:18:58 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:10668 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10668

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-09 04:14:42 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17

Via RHSA-2025:10295 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10295

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-22 15:13:25 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19

Via RHSA-2025:11363 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11363

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-23 14:15:14 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17

Via RHSA-2025:11359 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11359

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-30 13:13:22 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16

Via RHSA-2025:11681 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11681

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-30 22:11:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18

Via RHSA-2025:11677 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11677