CVE-2025-6224 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-6224: Key leakage in juju/utils certificates

Vendor Canonical
Product Juju utils
Weakness CWE-312 · Cleartext storage
Published July 1, 2025
Last update July 1, 2025

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 1, 2025 CVE published
July 1, 2025 Record updated