GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-7j6w-vvw2-5f9c OpenBao's Kerberos Auth Method Accumulates Unaccessible Tokens

MEDIUM Published 2026-05-28 Modified 2026-05-28 Official page ↗
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