Vulnerability · Published Mar 7, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-25243

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 52.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com x_refsource_MISC
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-09-vault-pki-secrets-engine-policy-results-in-incorrect-wildcard-certificate-issuance/36600 x_refsource_MISC
GLSA-202207-01 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO