Improper Certificate Validation in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2022-25243

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Improper Certificate Validation in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2022-25243

Published: August 4, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU66117
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25243
CWE-ID: CWE-295
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to software allows 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. A remote user can bypass implemented security restriction and issue wildcard certificates.


Affected software

Vault Enterprise
Vault
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2022-25243

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.8.9, 1.9.4
Vault - addressed in versions 1.8.9, 1.9.4

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