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CVE-2025-62705

OpenBao and Vault Leak []byte Fields in Audit Logs

Severity
Medium 5.7
Published
22 Oct 2025
Last changed
19 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
2.4.2
Also known as
GHSA-rc54-2g2c-g36g
Sources
NVD, Project advisories (GitHub)

Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.4.2, OpenBao's audit log did not appropriately redact fields when relevant subsystems sent []byte response parameters rather than strings. This includes, but is not limited to sys/raw with use of encoding=base64, all data would be emitted unredacted to the audit log, and Transit, when performing a signing…

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
OpenBaoServers and applications · cpe:a:openbao:openbao
  • Every version before 2.4.2
OpenBaoServers and applications · github:openbao/openbao
  • Every version before 2.4.2

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62705
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62705
  • GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rc54-2g2c-g36g
  • github.com https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-rc54-2g2c-g36g