What is CVE-2025-6224?

CVE-2025-6224 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Juju Utils, classified under Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-01.

How severe is CVE-2025-6224?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Canonical Juju Utils

CVE-2025-6224

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.

Published 2025-07-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (3.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 3.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Canonical Juju Utils — versions 4.0.1
Canonical Juju\/utils

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

github.com/juju/utils/security/advisories/GHSA-h34r-jxqm-qgpr (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-6224?: CVE-2025-6224 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Juju Utils, classified under Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-07-01.
How severe is CVE-2025-6224?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.