CVE-2025-64761
OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Nov 25, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Reserved
- Nov 10, 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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 7.5 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
openbaoopenbao |
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References
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