CVE-2025-64761 (GCVE-0-2025-64761)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-25 00:01 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation
Summary
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 policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the sudo capability. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.4.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-26 04:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/2143 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/16bb0cc… | x_refsource_MISC |
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