GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-7j6w-vvw2-5f9c OpenBao's Kerberos Auth Method Accumulates Unaccessible Tokens
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-46405
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/openbao/openbao
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-28
Affected packages
• Go github.com/openbao/openbao: < 2.5.4 → fixed in 2.5.4
Description
Impact
In OpenBao's Kerberos auth method on the `GET` handler, or when an `Authorization: Negotiate` header is supplied, the response is includes a `logical.Auth` object in addition to an error message. This results in tokens being created with only the default policy, default TTL, and no entity information, which are hidden by the returned error message. No access to these tokens by the caller occurs and the authentication token is not ever made accessible outside of `sys/raw`. At most this could cause storage usage.
Patches
This is fixed in OpenBao v2.5.4.
Workarounds
Users may set a rate limit quota to limit the creation of these paths. As the path is unauthenticated, it isn't possible to deny access to it.
Reporter
This was discovered by an anonymous reporter.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-46405 OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7j6w-vvw2-5f9c web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3150 web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/0d82e0a5a3b6a93e8087bcbaf0b11326c12d4f4d web
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao package
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.5.4 web