# CVE-2025-48057: Icinga 2 certificate renewal might incorrectly renew an invalid certificate

- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.14.6, 2.13.12, 2.12.12
- Published: 2025-05-27 · Updated: 2025-05-27

## Affected

- Icinga icinga2: from 2.14.0, fixed in 2.14.6; from 2.13.0, fixed in 2.13.12; fixed in 2.12.12

## Description

Icinga 2 is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. Prior to versions 2.12.12, 2.13.12, and 2.14.6, the VerifyCertificate() function can be tricked into incorrectly treating certificates as valid. This allows an attacker to send a malicious certificate request that is then treated as a renewal of an already existing certificate, resulting in the attacker obtaining a valid certificate that can be used to impersonate trusted nodes. This only occurs when Icinga 2 is built with OpenSSL older than version 1.1.0. This issue has been patched in versions 2.12.12, 2.13.12, and 2.14.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Icinga icinga2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.14.6, 2.13.12, 2.12.12) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/security/advisories/GHSA-7vcf-f5v9-3wr6
- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/commit/34c93a2542bbe4e9886d15bc17ec929ead1aa152
- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/commit/4023128be42b18a011dda71ddee9ca79955b89cb
- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/commit/60f75f4a3d5cbb234eb3694ba7e9076a1a5b8776
- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/commit/9ad5683aab9eb392c6737ff46c830a945c9e240f
- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/commit/9b2c05d0cc09210bdeade77cf9a73859250fc48d

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