CVE-2025-55003

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
09/08/2025
Last modified:
12/08/2025

Description

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 2.3.1 and below, OpenBao's Login Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system allows enforcing MFA using Time-based One Time Password (TOTP). Due to normalization applied by the underlying TOTP library, codes were accepted which could contain whitespace; this whitespace could bypass internal rate limiting of the MFA method and allow reuse of existing MFA codes. This issue was fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this, use of rate-limiting quotas can limit an attacker's ability to exploit this: https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.3.2 (excluding)