[ CVE-2026-63131 · Published 23 Sep 2026 ]
OpenBao Skips Stricter Deny Policy for LIST operations
CVSS 6.0
EPSS <1%Fix available
[ Description ]Official description
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's vault/policy/acl.go could evaluate a broader wildcard ACL grant before more-specific trailing-wildcard ACL paths with capabilities = ["deny"] for a LIST operation. When a parent path permitted LIST and a child path was denied, the trailing-slash lookup could therefore allow listing the denied path. Other operation types are outside the repository advisory's affected scope. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
- github.com/openbao/openbao 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139eFixed version · GitHub Advisories · go package github.com/openbao/openbao: upgrade to 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e or later (affected < 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e)
[ Packages ]Affected open-source packages
- github.com/openbao/openbao goAffected < 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e · fixed in 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e · GHSA-xp3c-3jw3-4vcr
- github.com/openbao/openbao goAffected >= 0.1.0, <= 1.1.5 · GHSA-xp3c-3jw3-4vcr
[ References ]References
- github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/2e9625d6cebe4639d051ef53dd6ce7c49914ae6a
- github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/f58d848c139e5ba71aa63103fcfe101972b999fc
- github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3389
- github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3474
- github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0
- github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-xp3c-3jw3-4vcr