What happened
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.
Affected versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: 4.8.0 through before 5.5.2 (semver) Fixed: See vendor advisory.
Why it matters
Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.
Detection & mitigation
- Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
- Review affected product exposure and access logs.
Public PoC references
No public PoC reference has passed the current publication threshold.
Source timeline
CVE record published by NVDView source ↗
Record history
Record created from the first normalized source observation.
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