CVE-2025-54998
OpenBao Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Description
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints:, see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.
INFO
Published Date :
Aug. 9, 2025, 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified :
Aug. 12, 2025, 8:50 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
1.4
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Aug. 12, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 0.1.0 up to (excluding) 2.3.2 Added Reference Type GitHub, Inc.: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035 Types: Not Applicable Added Reference Type GitHub, Inc.: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/c52795c1ef746c7f2c510f9225aa8ccbbd44f9fc Types: Patch Added Reference Type GitHub, Inc.: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx Types: Vendor Advisory -
New CVE Received by [email protected]
Aug. 09, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints:, see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/. Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Added CWE CWE-307 Added Reference https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035 Added Reference https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/c52795c1ef746c7f2c510f9225aa8ccbbd44f9fc Added Reference https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx
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