Vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault
CVE-2022-25243
"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.
Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (45.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 45.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- discuss.hashicorp.com (Vendor Advisory)
- discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-09-vault-pki-secrets-engine-policy-results-i… (Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-25243?
- CVE-2022-25243 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-03-10.
- How severe is CVE-2022-25243?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.