6.5

CVE-2025-6224: canonical juju utils

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-6224GHSA-h34r-jxqm-qgprGO-2025-3798
Published 01-07-2025Last modified 01-07-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-6224 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in canonical juju utils. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15405-1

Timeline

  1. 01-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 01-07-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.14% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Utils

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Github.com/juju/utils3 products
  • v2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v3All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v4< 4.0.4
Canonical2 products
Github.com/juju1 product
  • utilsAll versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/juju/utils/v41 product
  • cert< 4.0.4
Ubuntu1 product
  • golang-github-juju-utilsAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 8 products

References

7 links