Description
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. OpenBao before v2.3.0 allowed an attacker to perform unauthenticated, unaudited cancellation of root rekey and recovery rekey operations, effecting a denial of service. In OpenBao v2.2.0 and later, manually setting the configuration option `disable_unauthed_rekey_endpoints=true` allows an operator to deny these rarely-used endpoints on global listeners. A patch is available at commit fe75468822a22a88318c6079425357a02ae5b77b. In a future OpenBao release communicated on OpenBao's website, the maintainers will set this to `true` for all users and provide an authenticated alternative. As a workaround, if an active proxy or load balancer sits in front of OpenBao, an operator can deny requests to these endpoints from unauthorized IP ranges.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openbao | openbao | < 2.3.0 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20250730T213748-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2025:15405-1 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | openbao | 2.3.1-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2025:15254-1 |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 |
Alpine
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine v3.24 | openbao | 2.3.1-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.23 | openbao | 2.3.1-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.22 | openbao | 2.3.1-r0 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | >= 0.1.0 | — | GHSA-prpj-rchp-9j5h |
| Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | < 0.0.0-20250625150133-fe75468822a2 | 0.0.0-20250625150133-fe75468822a2 | GHSA-prpj-rchp-9j5h |
| Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | all versions | — | GO-2025-3783 |
Advisories 3
- openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 Security update for govulncheck-vulndb SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Jul 31, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2025:15405-1 govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250730T213748-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Mar 23, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2025:15254-1 openbao-2.3.1-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Mar 23, 2026