BIT-OPENBAO-2026-55775 OpenBao's System Backend allows Unauthorized Management of the containing Namespace

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, OpenBao users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit special handling of the literal root path in namespace canonicalization. The /sys/namespaces/ endpoint family ca...

PT-2026-99005

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, OpenBao users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit special handling of the literal root path in namespace canonicalization. The /sys/namespaces/ endpoint family ca...

CVE-2026-55775

A flaw was found in OpenBao, an identity-based secrets management system. An authenticated user with specific permissions on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit a vulnerability in the namespace path canonicalization process. This flaw allows the user to perform...

CVE-2026-55775

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, OpenBao users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit special handling of the literal root path in namespace canonicalization. The /sys/namespaces/ endpoint family ca...

CVE-2026-55775

OpenBao is an open-source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5 , users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit a flaw in namespace path canonicalization . Because ACL checks occurred before the literal root path was canonicalized ...

CVE-2026-55775 OpenBao's System Backend allows Unauthorized Management of the containing Namespace

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, OpenBao users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit special handling of the literal root path in namespace canonicalization. The /sys/namespaces/ endpoint family ca...

CVE-2026-55775 OpenBao's System Backend allows Unauthorized Management of the containing Namespace

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, OpenBao users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit special handling of the literal root path in namespace canonicalization. The /sys/namespaces/ endpoint family ca...

CVE-2026-55775: Improper Authorization

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, OpenBao users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit special handling of the literal root path in namespace canonicalization. The /sys/namespaces/ endpoint family ca...

GHSA-MWR2-WMGP-CRJ6 OpenBao's System Backend allows Unauthorized Management of the containing Namespace

Summary A user that is granted namespace management /sys/namespaces capabilities within a non-root namespace "the victim namespace" can abuse special handling of the literal path "root" in namespace path canonicalization to manage the victim namespace itself. Details Several endpoints under...