Privilege Escalation

github.com/openbao/openbao is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. The vulnerability is due to accounts with access to privileged identity entity systems in root namespaces being able to escalate privileges to the global root policy...

SUSE 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 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...