CVE-2025-54998

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 12 %ileDEEURUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.22% (12th) EPSS
CVSS 5.3 · medium
Is it mine?
12 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
6 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints:, see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.15.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4
v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV
v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (4)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • WID-SEC-W-2025-1855OpenBao: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-08-17csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, authentisierter oder anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in OpenBao ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, Root-Rechte zu erlangen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen und vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen.

  • GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhxOpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass2025-08-08ghsa · osvUS

    ### Impact Attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. ### Patches OpenBao v2.3.2 will patch this issue. ### Workarounds Existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints: https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/ ### References This issue was disclosed to HashiCorp and is the OpenBao equivalent of the following tickets: - https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6004

  • BIT-openbao-2025-54998OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass2026-07-27vendor · osvUS

    OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints:, see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.

  • GO-2025-3855OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass in github.com/openbao/openbao2025-08-11vendor · osvUS

    OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass in github.com/openbao/openbao. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/openbao/openbao before v2.3.2.

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references (10)

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