GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-7ccv-rp6m-rffr OpenBao's Certificate Authentication Allows Token Renewal With Different Certificate
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-39388
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/openbao/openbao
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295, CWE-863
- Reviewed
- 2026-04-21
Affected packages
• Go github.com/openbao/openbao: < 0.0.0-20260420160924-abe84e1af4c3 → fixed in 0.0.0-20260420160924-abe84e1af4c3
Description
Background
OpenBao's Certificate authentication method, when a token renewal is requested and `disable_binding=true` is set, attempts to verify the current request's presented mTLS certificate matches the original. Token renewals for other authentication methods do not require any supplied login information.
Impact
Due to incorrect matching, the certificate authentication method would allow renewal of tokens for which the attacker had a sibling certificate+key signed by the same CA, but which did not necessarily match the original role or the originally supplied certificate. This implies an attacker could still authenticate to OpenBao in a similar scope, however, token renewal implies that an attacker may be able to extend the lifetime of dynamic leases held by the original token. This attack requires knowledge of either the original token or its accessor.
This vulnerability is originally from HashiCorp Vault.
Patches
This has been addressed in v2.5.3.
Workarounds
Ensure privileged roles are tightly scoped to single certificates.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-39388 OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7ccv-rp6m-rffr web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39388 advisory
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/2932 web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/9ab7a066826cc544c30e8b203f8f472076f366e1 web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao package
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.5.3 web