CVE-2022-25243
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 7, 2022 at 09:45 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:33 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorVault
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
1.8.0 ≤ v < 1.8.91.9.0 ≤ v < 1.9.4
Affected range stops below 1.8.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.9.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (3)
x_refsource_MISCMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-09-vault-pki-secrets-engine-policy-results-in-incorrect-wildcard-certificate-issuance/36600Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-295
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