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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-46405 BIT-openbao-2026-46405EUVD-2026-54683GHSA-7j6w-vvw2-5f9cGO-2026-5225

OpenBao's Kerberos Auth Method Accumulates Unaccessible Tokens

Published Aug 7, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.5.4, in OpenBao's Kerberos auth method on the `GET` handler, or when an `Authorization: Negotiate` header is supplied, the response is includes a `logical.Auth` object in addition to an error message. This results in tokens being created with only the default policy, default TTL, and no entity information, which are hidden by the returned error message. No access to these tokens by the caller occurs and the authentication token is not ever made accessible outside of `sys/raw`. This is fixed in OpenBao v2.5.4. As a workaround, users may set a rate limit quota to limit the creation of these paths. As the path is unauthenticated, it isn't possible to deny access to it.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
openbao openbao < 2.5.4 —

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
openSUSE Tumbleweed openbao 2.5.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10835-1
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 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/openbao/openbao < 2.5.4 2.5.4 GHSA-7j6w-vvw2-5f9c
Go github.com/openbao/openbao all versions — GO-2026-5225

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