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GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx

OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-54998

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/openbao/openbao >= 0.1.0, < 2.3.2 2.3.2
Go github.com/openbao/openbao < 0.0.0-20250807212521-c52795c1ef74 0.0.0-20250807212521-c52795c1ef74

Details

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### 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

References

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