CVE-2026-55776
OpenBao: Transit secrets engine crashes on key creation with `derived: true` for asymmetric key types
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2026
- Reserved
- Jun 17, 2026
Description
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, an authenticated OpenBao caller with write access to transit/keys/* could terminate the server process by setting derived to true while the type parameter selected rsa-, ecdsa-, or ed25519. The Transit policy creation path in builtin/logical/transit/backend.go and sdk/helper/keysutil/policy.go could reach an error path that double-unlocked a mutex while handling this invalid asymmetric derived-key combination, causing a panic, no HTTP response, process exit, and denial of service. JSON and HCL key-creation requests can express the triggering combination. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.5.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
openbaoopenbao |
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References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-8w8f-r2xv-4q4j
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3309
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3312
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/bb17827f3e33779a10166f7d0e61b191c0facef9
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/db57c62602b25da12951f3f0edb888e7c4da61e5
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.5.5
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0
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