CVE-2025-54999 (GCVE-0-2025-54999)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-09 02:00 – Updated: 2025-08-11 14:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
OpenBao: Timing Side-Channel in Userpass Auth Method
Summary
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, when using OpenBao's userpass auth method, user enumeration was possible due to timing difference between non-existent users and users with stored credentials. This is independent of whether the supplied credentials were valid for the given user. This issue was fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, users may use another auth method or apply rate limiting quotas to limit the number of requests in a period of time: https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-11 14:40 UTC
CWE
- CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/4d9b5d3… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-15-tim… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-21-vau… | x_refsource_MISC |
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