CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-71543
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-09-25
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, templated ACL, PKI, and SSH policies could substitute attacker-controlled identity data without rejecting syntax-significant characters. In ACL templated policies, asterisks, plus signs, and slashes could alter path matching. In PKI allowed_uri_sans_template and allowed_domains policies, an asterisk could broaden certificate issuance to unauthorized domains. In SSH allowed_users and allowed_domains policies, a comma could add unauthorized principals. Exploitation requires a deployment to use templated policy data that users can freely modify; templates based on the randomly generated identity.entity.id value are not affected. This could allow privilege escalation, unauthorized access, and unauthorized certificate issuance. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#201 github.com
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/2d4ebafec5c524408b3d4ac1198df909cb7ac8c1 github.com
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/e516ce508e1481504cadbfbf62052364339093bc github.com
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3401 github.com
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3473 github.com
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0 github.com
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-59w7-v8rr-pr4p github.com