CVE-2025-6032

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.

To exploit this flaw, a user needs to download an image from an untrusted OCI registry, specifically, an OCI registry with an invalid TLS certificate. This allows a remote attacker with access to the network path between the registry and the client to perform a Man In the Middle attack.

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Download the VM image manually with another tool that verifies the TLS certificate and then pass the local image as a file path to podman, for example:

podman machine init --image <local-image-path>