CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-64761

HighCVSS 7.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.36%

29th percentile - higher than 29% of all known CVEs

Summary

In OpenBao, a privileged operator could use the identity group subsystem to add a root policy to a group, escalating their own or another user's permissions. This affects operators in the root namespace with access to identity/groups endpoints but without policy access. The issue is patched in version 2.4.4.

Risk Assessment

This can lead to unauthorized privilege escalation to root level in the secrets management system, risking full control over secrets and configuration. The risk is significant in environments with multiple operators of varying privileges.

Recommendation

Upgrade OpenBao to version 2.4.4 or later. Additionally, restrict access to identity/groups endpoints to trusted operators only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS