CVE-2025-22248 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/bitnami/charts/security/advisories/GHSA-mx38-x658-5fwj