CVE-2026-63132

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

Published Sep 23, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 9.2 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's handleLogicalRecovery path in http/logical.go compared the highly privileged recovery token with ordinary string equality. A remote unauthenticated attacker able to make repeated recovery mode requests and measure response timing could infer the recovery token. The recovered token could then authorize recovery mode operations that read or modify OpenBao data. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53 OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack
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Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

threat_severity

Important

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Openbao
Openbao openbao
Vendors & Products Openbao
Openbao openbao
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Description OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's handleLogicalRecovery path in http/logical.go compared the highly privileged recovery token with ordinary string equality. A remote unauthenticated attacker able to make repeated recovery mode requests and measure response timing could infer the recovery token. The recovered token could then authorize recovery mode operations that read or modify OpenBao data. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.
Title OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack
Weaknesses CWE-208
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Sep 23, 2026, 7:16 PM
Reserved
Jul 15, 2026, 4:54 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Sep 23, 2026, 7:17 PM
Modified
Sep 29, 2026, 7:06 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Sep 23, 2026, 5:59 PM