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CVE-2022-25243 json

"Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.8.0 through 1.8.8, and 1.9.3 allowed the PKI secrets engine under certain configurations to issue wildcard ce…

published 4y ago modified 2mo ago also BIT-vault-2022-25243 , EUVD-2022-29940

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

"Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.8.0 through 1.8.8, and 1.9.3 allowed the PKI secrets engine under certain configurations to issue wildcard certificates to authorized users for a specified domain, even if the PKI role policy attribute allow_subdomains is set to false. Fixed in Vault Enterprise 1.8.9 and 1.9.4.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami vault 1.8.9, 1.9.4
  • hashicorp vault 1.8.9, 1.9.4
  • vault Alpine 3.18, Alpine 3.17, Alpine 3.16 +1 more 1.9.4-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-25243

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-25243 updated cvss 6.5

vault: PKI Secrets Engine Policy Results In Incorrect Wildcard Certificate Issuance

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-installer
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator, odf4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami vault
>=1.8.0, <1.8.9
>=1.9.0, <1.9.4
1.8.9
1.9.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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