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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2025· Updated Feb 26, 2026

OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation

CVE-2025-64761

Description

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. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.4.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/openbao/openbaoGo
< 2.4.42.4.4

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