OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges_CVE-2025-54996

7.2 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-54996

Source GitHub_M

Published Aug 9, 2025 at 01:32

Affected Product

Vendor openbao

Product openbao

Version < 2.3.2

Affected Versions openbao openbao < 2.3.2

CWE Classification

CWE-269

References

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