CVE-2022-25244

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2022-03-10 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vault Enterprise clusters using the tokenization transform feature can expose the tokenization key through the tokenization key configuration endpoint to authorized operators with `read` permissions on this endpoint. Fixed in Vault Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.9 and 1.7.10.

Affected products

HashiCorp Vault: from 1.7.0 before 1.7.10; from 1.8.0 before 1.8.9; from 1.9.0 before 1.9.4 — fixed in 1.7.10, 1.8.9, 1.9.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Vault 1.7.10, 1.8.9, 1.9.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-08-vault-enterprise-s-tokenization-transform-configuration-endpoint-may-expose-transform-key/36599
https://discuss.hashicorp.com
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-08-vault-enterprise-s-tokenization-transform-configuration-endpoint-may-expose-transform-key/36599

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