CVE-2025-54998

Name
CVE-2025-54998
Description
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints:, see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035
MISC https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/c52795c1ef746c7f2c510f9225aa8ccbbd44f9fc
CONFIRM https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
openbao >= 0.1.0 < 2.3.2

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
openbao edge-community 2.3.2-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> fixed
openbao edge-community 2.1.0-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.1.0-r1 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.1.0-r2 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.2.0-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.2.0-r1 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.2.0-r2 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.2.1-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.2.1-r1 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.2.2-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.2.2-r1 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.3.1-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.3.1-r1 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao 3.22-community 2.1.0-r5 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao 3.22-community 2.3.1-r1 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao 3.22-community 2.3.1-r2 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
openbao 3.22-community 2.3.1-r3 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable