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NVD description
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 2.3.1 and below, accounts with access to highly-privileged identity entity systems in root namespaces were able to increase their scope directly to the root policy. While the identity system allowed adding arbitrary policies, which in turn could contain capability grants on arbitrary paths, the root policy was restricted to manual generation using unseal or recovery key shares. The global root policy was not accessible from child namespaces. This issue is fixed in version 2.3.2. To workaround this vulnerability, use of denied_parameters in any policy which has access to the affected identity endpoints (on identity entities) may be sufficient to prohibit this type of attack.
Priority
LOW
Exploitation
NONE
PoC
NONE
Patch
NONE
Momentum
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If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.
🔴 OpenBao, Privilege Escalation via Namespace Path Canonicalization, #CVE-2025-54996 (High) -DC-Jun2026-518 https://dailycve.com/openbao-privilege-escalation-via-namespace-path-canonicalization-cve-2025-54996-high-dc-jun2026-518/
Post summary
The post announces CVE‑2025‑54996, a high‑severity privilege‑escalation flaw in OpenBao, but does not provide PoC, exploit, active-use, or patch details.
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