CVE-2025-54998 Information

Description

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 attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints: see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.

Reference

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035 https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/c52795c1ef746c7f2c510f9225aa8ccbbd44f9fc https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx

Related CNNVD

CNNVD-202508-808 (Published: 2025-08-09)