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CVE-2022-25243

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-25243 affects HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 1.8.0-1.8.8 and 1.9.3, allowing the PKI secrets engine to issue wildcard certificates despite the 'allow_subdomains' policy being set to false. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and could lead to unauthorized certificate issuance, impacting integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-installer
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4Fixed in: odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-25243Moderate

vault: PKI Secrets Engine Policy Results In Incorrect Wildcard Certificate Issuance

Mar 10, 2022

References

discuss.hashicorp.com
Vendor Advisory
discuss.hashicorp.com / t/hcsec-2022-09-vault-pki-secrets-engine-policy-results-in-incorrect-wildcard-certificate-issuance/36600
MitigationVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202207-01
Third Party Advisory