CVE-2025-54996 OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

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...

CVE-2025-54996

CVE-2025-54996 — OpenBao root namespace privilege escalation. OpenBao versions 2.3.1 and earlier allow accounts with access to highly-privileged identity entity systems in the root namespace to directly elevate scope to the root policy. The identity system can add policies that grant capabilities...

CVE-2025-54996 OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

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...

CVE-2025-54996

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...

CVE-2025-54996

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...

CVE-2025-54996: Improper Privilege Management

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...

OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

Impact Accounts with access to the highly-privileged identity entity system in the root namespace may increase their scope directly to the root policy. While the identity system always allowed adding arbitrary policies, which in turn could contain capability grants on arbitrary paths, the root...

GHSA-VF84-MXRQ-CRQC OpenBao Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

Impact Accounts with access to the highly-privileged identity entity system in the root namespace may increase their scope directly to the root policy. While the identity system always allowed adding arbitrary policies, which in turn could contain capability grants on arbitrary paths, the root...

PT-2025-32379

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenBao versions 2.3.1 and below Description OpenBao is a software solution for managing, storing, and distributing sensitive data. In affected versions, accounts with access to highly-privileged identity entity systems in root namespaces coul...

BIT-VAULT-2025-5999 Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22...

GHSA-6H4P-M86H-HHGH Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22...

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Overview github.com/hashicorp/vault/vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment via the identity endpoint in the root namespace. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to elevated privileges by modifying toke...

Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22...

CVE-2025-5999

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22...

CVE-2025-5999 Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22...

CVE-2025-5999 Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22...

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

Summary A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-5999, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise...

CVE-2025-5999: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22...

SUSE CVE-2024-9180

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace's identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user's privileges to Vault's root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, and 1.15.16...

CVE-2024-9180

A flaw was found in HashiCorp Vault. This vulnerability allows a privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace's identity endpoint to escalate their privileges to Vault’s root policy...