CVE-2025-22248 CRITICAL

CVE-2025-22248: [pgpool] Unauthenticated access to postgres through pgpool

Vendor Vmware
Product Bitnami
Published May 13, 2025
Last update May 13, 2025

CVSS base score

9.4/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 13, 2025 CVE published
May 13, 2025 Record updated