Improper Certificate Validation Affecting github.com/containers/podman/v4/pkg/machine/ocipull package, versions >=4.8.0
Threat Intelligence
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- published26 Jun 2025
- disclosed25 Jun 2025
- creditPaul Holzinger
Introduced: 25 Jun 2025
CVE-2025-6032 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for github.com/containers/podman/v4/pkg/machine/ocipull.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation via the machine init process. An attacker can intercept or manipulate data in transit by performing a man-in-the-middle attack during the download of VM images from an OCI registry.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by manually downloading the disk image using a tool that verifies the TLS connection and then providing the local image file path to the initialization process.