[ CVE-2026-77285 · Published 23 Sep 2026 ]
OpenBao Agent Writes Secrets to Stdout
CVSS 2.4
EPSS <1%Fix available
[ Description ]Official description
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao Agent's exec rendering mode could write secrets from env_template to standard output when command/agent/exec/exec.go re-created the template runner after repeated rendering failures, primarily after num_retries was reached. A process supervisor, log collector, or local user able to read that output could obtain the rendered secret values. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
- github.com/openbao/openbao 0.0.0-20260714163218-90272575e5f5Fixed version · GitHub Advisories · go package github.com/openbao/openbao: upgrade to 0.0.0-20260714163218-90272575e5f5 or later (affected < 0.0.0-20260714163218-90272575e5f5)
[ Packages ]Affected open-source packages
- github.com/openbao/openbao goAffected < 0.0.0-20260714163218-90272575e5f5 · fixed in 0.0.0-20260714163218-90272575e5f5 · GHSA-444v-8vxr-p36h
- github.com/openbao/openbao goAffected >= 0.1.0, <= 1.1.5 · GHSA-444v-8vxr-p36h
[ References ]References
- github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/90272575e5f58b3883fbb0ccb2238e9285722d1a
- github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/ee3aa4aff72c5176cf02af21eac7158899080878
- github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3494
- github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3495
- github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0
- github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-444v-8vxr-p36h