VDB
CVE-2025-64761
CVE-2025-64761
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.4.4, a privileged operator could use the identity group subsystem to add a root policy to a group identity group, escalating their or another user's permissions in the system. Specifically this is an issue when: an operator in the root namespace has access to identity/groups endpoints and an operator does not have policy access. Otherwise, an operator with policy access could create or modify an existing policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the sudo capability. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.4.
EPSS 0.04% · 11.1th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 4.0
7.5
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS Score
0.04%
11.1th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| github.com | openbao/openbao | 0 |
| openbao | openbao | < 2.4.4, 0 |
Timeline
- Nov 24, 2025 CVE Published
- Nov 25, 2025 EPSS Score
- Nov 25, 2025 PoC Published
- Nov 27, 2025 CVE Updated
- Nov 30, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 4, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 9, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 14, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 23, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 28, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jan 2, 2026 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436 url
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/2143 url
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/16bb0ccd37a502930a289d434cbe4e7b4edd66e5 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64761 advisory
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/747a1378c2756f86296ad9450f74f6faeecc2eb7 url
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao package
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.4.4 url