CVE Alert: CVE-2025-54996

Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-54996

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.

Affected Endpoints:

No affected endpoints listed.

Published Date:

8/9/2025, 2:15:37 AM

🔥 CVSS Score:

Exploit Status:

Not Exploited

EPS Score: 0.0002 | Ranking EPS: 0.03319

References:

• https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1627
• https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.3.2
• https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-vf84-mxrq-crqc

Recommended Action:

No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.

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