CVE-2022-22975: VMware Pinniped

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• VMware Pinniped: from 0.9.0, before 0.17.0 (fixed in 0.17.0)

Published 2022-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.