What is CVE-2025-22248?

CVE-2025-22248 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Bitnami, classified under Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-05-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-22248?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-22248 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Broadcom Bitnami

CVE-2025-22248

The bitnami/pgpool Docker image, and the bitnami/postgres-ha k8s chart, under default configurations, comes with an 'repmgr' user that allows unauthenticated access to the database inside the cluster. The PGPOOL_SR_CHECK_USER is the user that Pgpool itself uses to perform streaming replication checks against nodes, and should not be at trust level. This allows to log into a PostgreSQL database using the repgmr user without authentication. If Pgpool is exposed externally, a potential attacker could use this user to get access to the service. This is also present within the bitnami/postgres-ha Kubernetes Helm chart.

EPSS: 0.004 (36.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1188 — Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

security@vmware.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-22248?: CVE-2025-22248 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Bitnami, classified under Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-05-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-22248?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-22248 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.