GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436 OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-64761
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/openbao/openbao
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-266, CWE-269
- Reviewed
- 2025-11-24
Affected packages
• Go github.com/openbao/openbao: < 2.4.4 → fixed in 2.4.4
Description
Impact
Similar to HCSEC-2025-13 / CVE-2025-5999, 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:
1. An operator in the root namespace has access to `identity/groups` endpoints.
2. 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.
Patches
Patched in version 2.4.4.
Workarounds
Users should audit the use of identity subsystem and deny operators access if it is not in use.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-64761 OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64761 advisory
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/2143 web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/16bb0ccd37a502930a289d434cbe4e7b4edd66e5 web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/747a1378c2756f86296ad9450f74f6faeecc2eb7 web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao package
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.4.4 web