OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation_CVE-2025-64761

7.5 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.4.4, a privileged operator could use the identity group subsystem to add a root policy to a group identity group, escalating their or another user's permissions in the system. Specifically this is an issue when: an operator in the root namespace has access to identity/groups endpoints and an operator does not have policy access. Otherwise, an operator with policy access could create or modify an existing policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the sudo capability. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.4.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-64761

Source GitHub_M

Published Nov 25, 2025 at 00:01

Affected Product

Vendor openbao

Product openbao

Version < 2.4.4

Affected Versions openbao openbao < 2.4.4

CWE Classification

CWE-266

References

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