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CVE-2025-64761

OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation

Severity
High 7.5
Published
24 Nov 2025
Last changed
18 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
2.4.3, 2.4.4
Also known as
GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436
Sources
NVD, Project advisories (GitHub)

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…

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
OpenBaoServers and applications · cpe:a:openbao:openbao
  • Every version before 2.4.4
OpenBaoServers and applications · github:openbao/openbao
  • Every version before 2.4.3

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64761
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-64761
  • GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436
  • github.com https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436