CVE-2025-54998 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in Openbao Openbao
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 9
Latest updateAug 11
Description
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4