{"schema_version":"1.9.0","id":"BIT-openbao-2025-64761","published":"2026-07-27T05:49:02.653Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:16.795487468Z","aliases":["CVE-2025-64761","GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436","GO-2025-4156"],"summary":"OpenBao Privileged Operator Identity Group Root Escalation","details":"OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.4.4, a privileged operator could use the identity group subsystem to add a root policy to a group identity group, escalating their or another user's permissions in the system. Specifically this is an issue when: an operator in the root namespace has access to identity/groups endpoints and an operator does not have policy access. Otherwise, an operator with policy access could create or modify an existing policy to grant root-equivalent permissions through the sudo capability. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.4.","affected":[{"package":{"name":"openbao","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/openbao"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.4.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/openbao/BIT-openbao-2025-64761.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X"}]}],"references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/16bb0ccd37a502930a289d434cbe4e7b4edd66e5"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/2143"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-7ff4-jw48-3436"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64761"}],"database_specific":{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"],"severity":"High"}}