CVE-2025-64761
Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
25/11/2025
Last modified:
01/12/2025
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 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.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
7.50
Severity 4.0
HIGH
Base Score 3.x
7.20
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 2.4.4 (excluding) |
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