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Critical · 9.4 CVE-2025-22248 EUVD-2025-14374

[pgpool] Unauthenticated access to postgres through pgpool

Published May 13, 2025 · Updated May 13, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
VMware Bitnami — —

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