BIT-OPENBAO-2026-71543 OpenBao's Templated Policies Allow Privilege Escalation via Wildcard Characters

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, templated ACL, PKI, and SSH policies could substitute attacker-controlled identity data without rejecting syntax-significant characters. In ACL templated policies, asterisks, plus signs, and slashes could alter pa...

PT-2026-102743

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, templated ACL, PKI, and SSH policies could substitute attacker-controlled identity data without rejecting syntax-significant characters. In ACL templated policies, asterisks, plus signs, and slashes could alter pa...

CVE-2026-71543

A flaw was found in OpenBao, an open-source identity-based secrets management system. Templated Access Control List ACL, Public Key Infrastructure PKI, and Secure Shell SSH policies could substitute attacker-controlled identity data without properly rejecting syntax-significant characters. This...

PT-2026-96137

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenBao versions prior to 2.6.0 Description Templated ACL, PKI, and SSH policies fail to reject syntax-significant characters when substituting attacker-controlled identity data. In ACL templated policies, characters such as asterisks, plus...

CVE-2022-2393

A flaw was found in pki-core, which could allow a user to get a certificate for another user identity when directory-based authentication is enabled. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker on the adjacent network to impersonate another user within the scope of the domain, but they would not b...

CVE-2021-27098

In SPIRE 0.8.1 through 0.8.4 and before versions 0.9.4, 0.10.2, 0.11.3 and 0.12.1, specially crafted requests to the FetchX509SVID RPC of SPIRE Server’s Legacy Node API can result in the possible issuance of an X.509 certificate with a URI SAN for a SPIFFE ID that the agent is not authorized to...