CVE-2025-52894CWE-20

OpenBao Vulnerable to Unauthenticated Rekey Operation Cancellation

Medium · published June 25, 2025

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. OpenBao before v2.3.0 allowed an attacker to perform unauthenticated, unaudited cancellation of root rekey and recovery rekey operations, effecting a denial of service. In OpenBao v2.2.0 and later, manually setting the configuration option `disable_unauthed_rekey_endpoints=true` allows an operator to deny these rarely-used endpoints on global listeners. A patch is available at commit fe75468822a22a88318c6079425357a02ae5b77b. In a future OpenBao release communicated on OpenBao's website, the maintainers will set this to `true` for all users and provide an authenticated alternative. As a workaround, if an active proxy or load balancer sits in front of OpenBao, an operator can deny requests to these endpoints from unauthorized IP ranges.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00396 · 32.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2025-06-25T16:59Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 16:59Z
    OpenBao Vulnerable to Unauthenticated Rekey Operation Cancellation
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