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High · 7.5 CVE-2025-64761 BIT-openbao-2025-64761EUVD-2025-198991GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436GO-2025-4156

OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation

Published Nov 25, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
openbao openbao < 2.4.4 —

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 0.0.20251209T172047-150000.1.127.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4395-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed openbao 2.4.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15767-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20251209T172047-150000.1.127.1 SUSE-SU-2025:4395-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/openbao/openbao < 2.4.4 2.4.4 GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436
Go github.com/openbao/openbao all versions — GO-2025-4156

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