CVE-2025-54996
HIGH7.2EPSS 0.08%OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges in github.com/openbao/openbao
Published: 8/8/2025Modified: 8/11/2025
Description
OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges in github.com/openbao/openbao. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/openbao/openbao before v2.3.2.
Affected packages (2)
- Go/github.com/openbao/openbao>= 0.1.0, < 2.3.2
- Go/github.com/openbao/openbaofrom 0, < 0.0.0-20250806193240-9b0b5d4f345f, >= 0.1.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54996
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-5999
- PATCHhttps://github.com/openbao/openbao
- WEBhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vault-root-namespace-operator-may-elevate-token-privileges/76032
- WEBhttps://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/9b0b5d4f345fdfb1065956f042b12cbd86cd6e0f
- WEBhttps://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1627
- WEBhttps://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.3.2
- WEBhttps://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-vf84-mxrq-crqc