CVE-2025-22248
CVE-2025-22248
9.4
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Source:security@vmware.com
Analyzed
Weakness (CWE)
CVSS Vector
v4.0- Attack Vector
- Adjacent
- Attack Complexity
- Low
- Attack Requirements
- None
- Privileges Required
- None
- User Interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (Vulnerable)
- High
- Integrity (Vulnerable)
- High
- Availability (Vulnerable)
- High
- Confidentiality (Subsequent)
- High
- Integrity (Subsequent)
- High
- Availability (Subsequent)
- High
Description
The bitnami/pgpool Docker image, and the bitnami/postgres-ha k8s chart, under default configurations, comes with an 'repmgr' user that allows unauthenticated access to the database inside the cluster. The PGPOOL_SR_CHECK_USER is the user that Pgpool itself uses to perform streaming replication checks against nodes, and should not be at trust level. This allows to log into a PostgreSQL database using the repgmr user without authentication. If Pgpool is exposed externally, a potential attacker could use this user to get access to the service. This is also present within the bitnami/postgres-ha Kubernetes Helm chart.
References
security@vmware.com
https://github.com/bitnami/charts/security/advisories/GHSA-mx38-x658-5fwj