CVE-2022-25197 Agent-to-controller security bypass in Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin allows reading arbitrary files

What is CVE-2022-25197?

CVE-2022-25197 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin, published on 15 Feb 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin 336.v182c0fbaaeb7 and earlier implements functionality that allows agent processes to read arbitrary files on the Jenkins controller file system.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-25197?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.datapipe.jenkins.plugins:hashicorp-vault-plugin. It affects 1 product.

Products include Jenkins Hashicorp Vault.

How do I fix CVE-2022-25197?

Upgrade com.datapipe.jenkins.plugins:hashicorp-vault-plugin to 351.vdb_f83a_1c6a_9d or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-25197 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-25197 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin

• CVE-2023-33001 Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin has improper masking of credentials High 7.5
• CVE-2022-36888 Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin does not perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints that perform Vault connection tests Medium 6.5
• CVE-2022-25186 Agent-to-controller security bypass in Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin Medium 6.5
• CVE-2022-23109 Improper credentials masking in Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin Medium 6.5
• CVE-2025-67642 Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin exposes system-scoped Vault credentials Medium 4.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2587-w93g-63m2.