OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 2.3.1 and below, accounts with access to highly-privileged identity entity systems in root namespaces were able to increase their scope directly to the root policy. While the identity system allowed adding arbitrary policies, which in turn could contain capability grants on arbitrary paths, the root policy was restricted to manual generation using unseal or recovery key shares. The global root policy was not accessible from child namespaces. This issue is fixed in version 2.3.2. To workaround this vulnerability, use of denied_parameters in any policy which has access to the affected identity endpoints (on identity entities) may be sufficient to prohibit this type of attack.
CVSS
No CVSS.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1627 | Issue Tracking |
| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.3.2 | Release Notes |
| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-vf84-mxrq-crqc | Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
12 Aug 2025, 20:51
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| First Time |
Openbao
Openbao openbao |
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| References | () https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1627 - Issue Tracking | |
| References | () https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-vf84-mxrq-crqc - Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.3.2 - Release Notes |
09 Aug 2025, 02:15
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2025-08-09 02:15
Updated : 2025-08-12 20:51
NVD link : CVE-2025-54996
Mitre link : CVE-2025-54996
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Products Affected
openbao
- openbao
CWE
CWE-269
Improper Privilege Management