{"cve":"CVE-2025-54996","nvd":{"published":"2025-08-09T02:15:37.887","modified":"2026-06-17T09:41:05.070","status":"Analyzed","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.2},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"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"],"products":["openbao:openbao"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:06:45.861874017+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-54996","score":0.00353,"percentile":0.28932,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-vf84-mxrq-crqc","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vf84-mxrq-crqc","summary":"OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges","modified":"2026-07-27T09:11:26.237184110Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/openbao/openbao","ranges":[">=0.1.0 <2.3.2"],"fixed":["2.3.2"]},{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/openbao/openbao","ranges":["<0.0.0-20250806193240-9b0b5d4f345f"],"fixed":["0.0.0-20250806193240-9b0b5d4f345f"]}]},{"id":"GO-2025-3857","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2025-3857","summary":"OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges in github.com/openbao/openbao","modified":"2026-07-27T09:11:26.237184110Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/openbao/openbao","ranges":["<0.0.0-20250806193240-9b0b5d4f345f",">=0.1.0"],"fixed":["0.0.0-20250806193240-9b0b5d4f345f"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}