Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE-2025-64761
Summary
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.4.4, a privileged operator could use the identity group subsystem to add a root policy to a group identity group, escalating their or another user's permissions in the system. Specifically this is an issue when: an operator in the root namespace has access to "identity/groups" endpoints and an operator does not have policy access. Otherwise, an operator with policy access could create or modify an existing policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the sudo capability.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published