Description
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, an OpenBao user with access to sys/leases/revoke/:lease_id in one namespace could revoke a lease in another namespace when the foreign lease_id was known, bypassing namespace ACL isolation. The affected lease lookup routing in vault/expiration.go allowed FetchLeaseInfo and loadEntry to resolve cached or stored lease data outside the request namespace, allowing a tenant that intentionally disclosed a lease identifier to have the lease and its underlying credential revoked by another tenant. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.5.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openbao | openbao | < 2.5.5 | — |
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 Leap 16.0 | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | >= 0.1.0, <= 2.5.4 | — | GHSA-c36x-h252-g9x2 |
| Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | < 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404 | 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404 | GHSA-c36x-h252-g9x2 |
| Go | github.com/openbao/openbao | < 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404 · >= 0.1.0 | 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404 | GO-2026-5304 |
Advisories 2
- WID-SEC-2026-2028 OpenBao: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Sep 15, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 Security update for govulncheck-vulndb SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Jul 31, 2026
References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-c36x-h252-g9x2
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3307
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3310
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/9ba1413d793223cca67db12434093a2f25fdc540
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/b20b999dd4044d7b419a5472d8fe08407828be37
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.5.5
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0