Unrated
Security advisory
"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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-25243
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 07:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
"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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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-25243",
"method": "structured",
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"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",
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"severity": "unknown",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-vault-2022-25243",
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"database_specific": {
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],
"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"
],
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}
},
"related_cves": [
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"evidence": "/id"
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 493505,
"published_at": "2022-03-07T21:45:16+00:00"
}