CVE-2025-22248

HIGH 7.5CVE-2025-22248 · Published 13/05/2025 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2025-22248 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting bitnami (broadcom), bitnami/pgpool (broadcom).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.50%, higher than 43.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 16.0.0, 4.6.0-1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bitnami broadcom	`< 16.0.0`	`16.0.0`
bitnami/pgpool broadcom	`< 4.6.0-1`	`4.6.0-1`

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

bitnami/charts security advisory · Vendor Advisory

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