vuln-cve/data/2025/22xxx/CVE-2025-22248.json

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                            "value": "<span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The </span><code>bitnami/pgpool</code><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;Docker image, and the </span><code>bitnami/postgres-ha</code><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;k8s chart, under default configurations, comes with an 'repmgr' user that allows unauthenticated access to the database inside the cluster.&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">The </span><code>PGPOOL_SR_CHECK_USER</code><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;is the user that Pgpool itself uses to perform streaming replication checks against nodes, and should not be at </span><code>trust</code><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;level. This allows to log into a PostgreSQL database using the </span><code>repgmr</code><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;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 </span><code>bitnami/postgres-ha</code><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;Kubernetes Helm chart.</span></span><br>"
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