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Security fix · CVE-2025-55003

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-2025-55003. EPSS is 0.25%. 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
Medium5.7
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.25%
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, OpenBao's Login Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system allows enforcing MFA using Time-based One Time Password (TOTP). Due to normalization applied by the underlying TOTP library, codes were accepted which could contain whitespace; this whitespace could bypass internal rate limiting of the MFA method and allow reuse of existing MFA codes. This issue was fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this, use of rate-limiting quotas can

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-2025-55003

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-2025-55003. EPSS is 0.25%. 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 0.25%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

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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, OpenBao's Login Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system allows enforcing MFA using Time-based One Time Password (TOTP). Due to normalization applied by the underlying TOTP library, codes were accepted which could contain whitespace;

  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, OpenBao's Login Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system allows enforcing MFA using Time-based One Time Password (TOTP). Due to normalization applied by the underlying TOTP library, codes were accepted which could contain whitespace;

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-55003

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-55003

    30-day exploitation probability 0.25%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-24032

    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, OpenBao's Login Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system allows enforcing MFA using Time-based One Time Password (

    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