Information Exposure Affecting openbao package, versions <2.3.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE322-OPENBAO-13704016
  • published24 Oct 2025
  • disclosed9 Aug 2025

Introduced: 9 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-54999  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.22 openbao to version 2.3.2-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.

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, when using OpenBao's userpass auth method, user enumeration was possible due to timing difference between non-existent users and users with stored credentials. This is independent of whether the supplied credentials were valid for the given user. This issue was fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, users may use another auth method or apply rate limiting quotas to limit the number of requests in a period of time: https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1