Upstream information

CVE-2025-54996 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 7.2
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1247888 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250811T192933-1.1
  • openbao >= 2.3.2-1.1
  • openbao-agent >= 2.3.2-1.1
  • openbao-cassandra-database-plugin >= 2.3.2-1.1
  • openbao-influxdb-database-plugin >= 2.3.2-1.1
  • openbao-mysql-database-plugin >= 2.3.2-1.1
  • openbao-mysql-legacy-database-plugin >= 2.3.2-1.1
  • openbao-postgresql-database-plugin >= 2.3.2-1.1
  • openbao-server >= 2.3.2-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15434
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15460

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb Released
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
openSUSE Leap 15.5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Aug 9 06:00:48 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Aug 27 12:31:39 2025