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.

EPSS: 0.001 (3.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Canonical Juju Utils — versions 4.0.1
Canonical Juju\/utils

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

security@ubuntu.com (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.