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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-54996

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys.

Published Aug 9, 2025 · catalog updated Aug 11, 2025 · OpenBao exists to provide

Last checked Oct 26, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-54996. EPSS is 0.33%. Act only if a listed version of OpenBao exists to provide is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (OpenBao exists to provide).
  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.

Same product and reporting

Severity
High7.2
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.33%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor openbao openbao < 2.3.2

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 the root policy. While the identity system allowed adding arbitrary policies, which in turn could contain capability grants on arbitrary paths, the root policy was restricted to manual generation using unseal or recovery key shares. The global root policy was not accessible from child namespaces. This

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor openbao openbao < 2.3.2< 2.3.2

How to fix CVE-2025-54996

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-54996. EPSS is 0.33%. Act only if a listed version of OpenBao exists to provide is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with openbao openbao < 2.3.2 < 2.3.2. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.33%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Aug 9, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    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 the root policy. While the identity system allowed adding arbitrary policies, which in turn could conta

  2. Aug 11, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    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 the root policy. While the identity system allowed adding arbitrary policies, which in turn could conta

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-54996

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-54996

    30-day exploitation probability 0.33%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-24038

    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 s

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 26, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.

  • FIRST EPSSOct 23, 2026
  • CVE.orgOct 21, 2026
  • EUVDOct 20, 2026