5.3

CVE-2025-54998: openbao

CVSS: 5.3v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesGHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhxBIT-openbao-2025-54998GO-2025-3855
Published 09-08-2025Last modified 11-08-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-54998 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in openbao. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15434-1SUSE-SU-2025:02912-1

Timeline

  1. 09-08-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-08-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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/.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.21% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Github.com/openbao1 product
  • openbao≥ 0.1.0, < 2.3.2 | < 0.0.0-20250807212521-c52795c1ef74 | ≥ 0.1.0, < 0.0.0-20250807212521-c52795c1ef74
Openbao1 product
  • openbao≥ 0.1.0, < 2.3.2 | < 2.3.2

2 vendors · 2 products

References

6 links