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CVE-2022-22975

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-05-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

An issue was discovered in the Pinniped Supervisor with either LADPIdentityProvider or ActiveDirectoryIdentityProvider resources. An attack would involve the malicious user changing the common name (CN) of their user entry on the LDAP or AD server to include special characters, which could be used to perform LDAP query injection on the Supervisor's LDAP query which determines their Kubernetes group membership.

Affected products

• Pinniped: from 0.9.0 before 0.17.0 — fixed in 0.17.0
• Pinniped: Pinniped versions before v0.17.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Pinniped 0.17.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/security/advisories/GHSA-hvrf-5hhv-4348
• https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/security/advisories/GHSA-hvrf-5hhv-4348

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