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.
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GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436 | OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation |
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| 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 policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the sudo capability. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.4. | |
| Title | OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-266 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2025-11-26T04:55:23.789Z
Reserved: 2025-11-10T22:29:34.876Z
Link: CVE-2025-64761
Updated: 2025-11-25T14:31:12.847Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-11-25T01:15:46.460
Modified: 2025-11-25T22:16:16.690
Link: CVE-2025-64761
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