6.5

CVE-2022-25243: hashicorp vault Improper Certificate Validation

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
Published 07-03-2022Last modified 03-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-25243 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.57%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 07-03-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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 metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.57%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

46%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.57% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.57%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.8.0, < 1.8.9 | ≥ 1.9.0, < 1.9.4

1 vendor · 1 product

References

3 links