CVE-2025-6224 (GCVE-0-2025-6224)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-01 10:39
Modified
2025-07-01 14:30
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Summary
Certificate generation in juju/utils using the cert.NewLeaf function could include private information. If this certificate were then transferred over the network in plaintext, an attacker listening on that network could sniff the certificate and trivially extract the private key from it.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical Juju utils Version: 4.0.1   ≤ 4.0.3
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