{"id":"GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","revision":"daa35953fd334dc8a72aa0315df61c59","records":[{"revision":"daa35953fd334dc8a72aa0315df61c59","observedAt":"2026-10-24T13:19:41.952+00:00","statement":{"source":"osv","id":"GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","aliases":["BIT-openbao-2025-64761","CVE-2025-64761","GO-2025-4156"],"title":"OpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation","description":"### Impact\n\nSimilar to HCSEC-2025-13 / CVE-2025-5999, 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:\n\n1. An operator in the root namespace has access to `identity/groups` endpoints.\n2. An operator does not have policy access.\n\nOtherwise, an operator with policy access could create or modify an existing policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the `sudo` capability.\n\n### Patches\n\nPatched in version 2.4.4. \n\n### Workarounds\n\nUsers should audit the use of identity subsystem and deny operators access if it is not in use.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2025-11-24T21:51:18+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-07-27T09:11:29.7453124+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/openbao/openbao","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"kind":"introduced","version":"0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"2.4.4"}]}],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[{"system":"CVSS_V4","vector":"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","score":null,"severity":null},{"system":"Publisher rating","vector":null,"score":null,"severity":"HIGH"}],"references":["https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64761","https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/2143","https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/16bb0ccd37a502930a289d434cbe4e7b4edd66e5","https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/747a1378c2756f86296ad9450f74f6faeecc2eb7","https://github.com/openbao/openbao","https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.4.4"],"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","license":"GitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0","key":"osv:GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","identifiers":["GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","BIT-openbao-2025-64761","CVE-2025-64761","GO-2025-4156"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}