GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53Critical

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

Published
September 22, 2026
Last Modified
September 22, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

When running in the highly privileged recovery mode, OpenBao was vulnerable to a timing attack against the single recovery token. This allowed an attacker to extract the recovery token and use it to perform operations against the OpenBao instance, including reading or modification of data.

Patches

This has been patched in OpenBao v2.6.0.

🎯 Affected products2

  • go/github.com/openbao/openbao:< 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721
  • go/github.com/openbao/openbao:>= 0.1.0, <= 1.1.5

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