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Low · 3.7 CVE-2025-54999 BIT-openbao-2025-54999EUVD-2025-24035GHSA-hh28-h22f-8357GO-2025-3854

OpenBao: Timing Side-Channel in Userpass Auth Method

Published Aug 9, 2025 · Updated Aug 11, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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/.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
openbao openbao >= 0.1.0, < 2.3.2 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250814T182633-150000.1.98.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02912-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250811T192933-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15434-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250814T182633-150000.1.98.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02912-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 openbao 2.3.2-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 openbao 2.3.2-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 openbao 2.3.2-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/openbao/openbao >= 0.1.0, < 2.3.2 2.3.2 GHSA-hh28-h22f-8357
Go github.com/openbao/openbao < 0.0.0-20250806193356-4d9b5d3d6486 0.0.0-20250806193356-4d9b5d3d6486 GHSA-hh28-h22f-8357
Go github.com/openbao/openbao < 0.0.0-20250806193356-4d9b5d3d6486 · >= 0.1.0 0.0.0-20250806193356-4d9b5d3d6486 GO-2025-3854

Advisories 3

References