Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 22, 2026· Updated Sep 22, 2026
OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack
CVE-2026-63132
Description
Impact
When running in the highly privileged recovery mode, OpenBao was vulnerable to a timing attack against the single recovery token. This allowed an attacker to extract the recovery token and use it to perform operations against the OpenBao instance, including reading or modification of data.
Patches
This has been patched in OpenBao v2.6.0.
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- github.com/advisories/GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53ghsaADVISORY
- github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.mdghsa
- github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/0f2d90c331f25d1c6cd108638da03f4c7bd949a8ghsa
- github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3388ghsa
- github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3472ghsa
- github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0ghsa
- github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53ghsa
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