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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-25243

"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.

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CVE-2022-25243
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3 Nov 2026, 07:46 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-25243

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Mar 2022, 21:45 UTC

"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.

osv:CVE-2022-25243
Complete source record
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  "id": "7757aec97fd2e8ab90d0c01ba514c7a2eacff4b11ce513eba0d55ffad4d8214c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-25243",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-25243",
    "summary": "\"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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-25243",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-25243",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-vault-2022-25243",
        "CVE-2022-25243"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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              "type": "GIT",
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                {
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                },
                {
                  "fixed": "42cd08b43c8bd8c6137c28c9fa2e575323fedf73"
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                    ],
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                  },
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          "versions": [
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            "v1.8.7",
            "v1.9.2",
            "v1.9.1",
            "v1.8.6",
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            "v1.8.5",
            "v1.8.4",
            "v1.8.3",
            "v1.8.2",
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          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-25243.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:26.782451108Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com",
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-09-vault-pki-secrets-engine-policy-results-in-incorrect-wildcard-certificate-issuance/36600",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/25xxx/CVE-2022-25243.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25243",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-25243",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 493505,
  "published_at": "2022-03-07T21:45:16+00:00"
}