CVE-2025-64761High▾ TwilightOpenBao is Vulnerable to Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 41.3 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 27.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.4%
0.4% → 0.4%
Similar to HCSEC-2025-13 / CVE-2025-5999, 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:
identity/groups endpoints.Otherwise, an operator with policy access could create or modify an existing policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the sudo capability.
Patched in version 2.4.4.
Users should audit the use of identity subsystem and deny operators access if it is not in use.
github.com/openbao/openbao < 2.4.4Upgrade to a patched release:
github.com/openbao/openbao 2.4.4Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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