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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

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 2022-03-07 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo 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

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

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, 2026-11-08).

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

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.