CVE-2026-63132 PUBLISHED

OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.07.2026 Published: 23.09.2026 Updated: 23.09.2026

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 token with ordinary string equality. A remote unauthenticated attacker able to make repeated recovery mode requests and measure response timing could infer the recovery token. The recovered token could then authorize recovery mode operations that read or modify OpenBao data. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor openbao
Product openbao
Versions
  • Version < 2.6.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy CWE