CVE-2025-55003
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, OpenBao's Login Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system allows enforcing MFA using Time-based One Time Password (TOTP). Due to normalization applied by the underlying TOTP library, codes were accepted which could contain whitespace; this whitespace could bypass internal rate limiting of the MFA method and allow reuse of existing MFA codes. This issue was fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this, use of rate-limiting quotas can limit an attacker's ability to exploit this: https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.
EPSS 0.10% · 27.7th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| openbao | openbao | < 2.3.2, 0 |
| github.com | openbao/openbao | 0.1.0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Jan 21, 1970 Security Advisory
- Aug 8, 2025 CVE Published
- Aug 9, 2025 EPSS Score
- Aug 9, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Aug 11, 2025 CVE Updated
- Aug 11, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Aug 12, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Aug 17, 2025 EPSS Score
- Aug 26, 2025 EPSS Score
- Aug 26, 2025 Coalition ESS Score
- Sep 3, 2025 EPSS Score
- Sep 12, 2025 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-rxp7-9q75-vj3p url
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/8340a6918f6c41d8f75b6c3845c376d9dc32ed19 url
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-19-vault-login-mfa-bypass-of-rate-limiting-and-totp-token-reuse/76038 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55003 advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6015 advisory
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao package