CVE-2025-64761Incorrect Privilege Assignment in Openbao Openbao

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
GHSA7.2OSV7.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 84.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 25

Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.4.4, 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: an operator in the root namespace has access to identity/groups endpoints and an operator does not have policy access. Otherwise, an operator with policy access could create or modify an existing polic

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

Affected Packages2 packages

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation in github.com/openbao/openbao2025-11-25
OSV
OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation2025-11-24
GHSA
OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation2025-11-24