CVE-2025-4166 Affecting openbao package, versions <2.2.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE322-OPENBAO-10734103
  • published14 Jul 2025
  • disclosed2 May 2025

Introduced: 2 May 2025

CVE-2025-4166  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.22 openbao to version 2.2.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openbao package and not the openbao package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.22 relevant fixed versions and status.

Vault Community and Vault Enterprise Key/Value (kv) Version 2 plugin may unintentionally expose sensitive information in server and audit logs when users submit malformed payloads during secret creation or update operations via the Vault REST API. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-4166, is fixed in Vault Community 1.19.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.19.3, 1.18.9, 1.17.16, 1.16.20.