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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.5 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

ProductVersions
openbaoopenbao
  • < 2.4.4Affected

References

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