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TI-2026-45068 Aliases CVE-2026-63132GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53

OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack

Priority MEDIUM 43CWE-208Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 2 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-208.

Summary

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's handleLogicalRecovery path in http/logical.go compared the highly privileged recovery token with ordinary string equality. A remote unauthenticated attacker able to make repeated recovery mode requests and measure response timing could infer the recovery token. The recovered token could then authorize recovery mode operations that read or modify OpenBao data. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00629 50th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial openbao (openbao): 2.6.0github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721Red Hat: 2 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
openbaoopenbaobefore 2.6.02.6.0Patch availableCNA
—github.com/openbao/openbao (Go)before 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a207210.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721Patch availableGHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53
—github.com/openbao/openbao (Go)0.1.0 – 1.1.5—No fix listedGHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53
  • openbao Vendoropenbao Affected before 2.6.0 Fixed in 2.6.0 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/openbao/openbao (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721 Fixed in 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721 Patch available GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53
  • github.com/openbao/openbao (Go) Vendor— Affected 0.1.0 – 1.1.5 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——openbao
  • cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·openbao

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA openbao (openbao) Fixed in 2.6.0
  • Fix · GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53 github.com/openbao/openbao (Go) Fixed in 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Hardened ImagesAffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift GitOpsAffectedNo fix yet
Not affected: 2 products
  • Cryostat 4
  • Red Hat Hardened Images

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-63132
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53
  3. 2026-10-29 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

Other 8

  • TI-2024-01904 Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-34075 OpenBao's Inline Auth Incorrectly Redacted Headers CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.4
  • TI-2026-40259 OpenBao: LDAPi ldaputil (wrong escape func) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8
  • TI-2026-40265 OpenBao: Transit secrets engine crashes on key creation with `derived: true` for asymmetric key types CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2026-28381 OpenBao has Decompression Bomb via Unbounded Copy in OCI Plugin Extraction (DoS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2026-26136 OpenBao lacks user confirmation for OIDC direct callback mode CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
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Sources

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