Medium severity · published Mar 10, 2022
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…
6.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
"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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VA
Vault · Hashicorp
1.8.0 before 1.8.9; 1.8.0 before 1.8.9; 1.9.0 before 1.9.4; 1.9.0 before 1.9.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25243
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25243
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com
Mitigation
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-09-vault-pki-secrets-engine-policy-results-in-incorrect-wildcard-certificate-issuance/36600
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01
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