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.
References10
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10295
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10549
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10550
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10551
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10668
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11359
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11363
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11677
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11681
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15397
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.3
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 44 · as of 7 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-295
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