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Low · 2.0 CVE-2026-39388 BIT-openbao-2026-39388EUVD-2026-24029GHSA-7ccv-rp6m-rffrGO-2026-5213

OpenBao's Certificate Authentication Allows Token Renewal With Different Certificate

Published Apr 21, 2026 · Updated Apr 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.5.3, OpenBao's Certificate authentication method, when a token renewal is requested and `disable_binding=true` is set, attempts to verify the current request's presented mTLS certificate matches the original. Token renewals for other authentication methods do not require any supplied login information. Due to incorrect matching, the certificate authentication method would allow renewal of tokens for which the attacker had a sibling certificate+key signed by the same CA, but which did not necessarily match the original role or the originally supplied certificate. This implies an attacker could still authenticate to OpenBao in a similar scope, however, token renewal implies that an attacker may be able to extend the lifetime of dynamic leases held by the original token. This attack requires knowledge of either the original token or its accessor. This vulnerability is original from HashiCorp Vault. This is addressed in v2.5.3. As a workaround, ensure privileged roles are tightly scoped to single certificates.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
openbao openbao < 2.5.3 —

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
openSUSE Tumbleweed openbao 2.5.3-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10594-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 openbao 2.5.4-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 openbao 2.5.4-r0 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling openbao +1 2.5.3-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/openbao/openbao < 0.0.0-20260420160924-abe84e1af4c3 0.0.0-20260420160924-abe84e1af4c3 GHSA-7ccv-rp6m-rffr

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