CVE-2025-54999CWE-203

OpenBao: Timing Side-Channel in Userpass Auth Method

Low · published August 9, 2025

CVSS v3.1
3.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.4
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. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, when using OpenBao's userpass auth method, user enumeration was possible due to timing difference between non-existent users and users with stored credentials. This is independent of whether the supplied credentials were valid for the given user. This issue was fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, users may use another auth method or apply rate limiting quotas to limit the number of requests in a period of time: https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.7 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00200 · 9.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-203 · Observable Discrepancy
Published
2025-08-09T02:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 AUG 02:00Z
    OpenBao: Timing Side-Channel in Userpass Auth Method
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