What is GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx?

GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx cover?

GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2025-54998. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx?

GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx?

GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx affects 2 products, including: go/github.com/openbao/openbao:\u003e= 0.1.0, \u003c 2.3.2; go/github.com/openbao/openbao:\u003c 0.0.0-20250807212521-c52795c1ef74.

GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhxMediumCVSS 5.3

OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 8, 2025

Last Modified

August 11, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-54998 →

📋 Description

Impact

Attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions.

Patches

OpenBao v2.3.2 will patch this issue.

Workarounds

Existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints: https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/

References

This issue was disclosed to HashiCorp and is the OpenBao equivalent of the following tickets:

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-16-vault-userpass-and-ldap-user-lockout-bypass/76035
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6004

🎯 Affected products2

go/github.com/openbao/openbao:>= 0.1.0, < 2.3.2
go/github.com/openbao/openbao:< 0.0.0-20250807212521-c52795c1ef74