OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack
### 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.
01
describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-63132US | — | — | ||
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's handleLogicalRecovery path in http/logical.go compared the highly privileged recovery… | ||||
02
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#203WEB
- https://github.com/openbao/openbaoPACKAGE
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/0f2d90c331f25d1c6cd108638da03f4c7bd949a8WEB
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3388WEB
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3472WEB
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0WEB
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53WEB
scry
Advisories like this name the exposed products attackers go after on your perimeter. See what is exposed on your perimeter with a free passive scan.
Free scan