{"cve":"CVE-2025-64761","nvd":{"published":"2025-11-25T01:15:46.460","modified":"2026-10-18T20:10:00.110","status":"Analyzed","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.","cvss_v4":{"vector":"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","score":7.5},"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-266"],"references":["https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/16bb0ccd37a502930a289d434cbe4e7b4edd66e5","https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/2143","https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436"],"products":["openbao:openbao"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:16:02.354564667+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-64761","score":0.00363,"percentile":0.29896,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","summary":"OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation","modified":"2026-07-27T09:11:29.745312378Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/openbao/openbao","ranges":["<2.4.4"],"fixed":["2.4.4"]}]},{"id":"GO-2025-4156","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2025-4156","summary":"OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation in github.com/openbao/openbao","modified":"2026-07-27T09:11:29.745312378Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/openbao/openbao","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]}]}],"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."]}