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Fencer Vulns
low 2.3

CVE-2026-55775 json

OpenBao's System Backend allows Unauthorized Management of the containing Namespace

published 2026-06-19 4 mo ago modified 2026-09-25 44 d ago also BIT-openbao-2026-55775 , EUVD-2026-78680 , GHSA-mwr2-wmgp-crj6 , GO-2026-5517

cvss
2.3
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, OpenBao users granted capabilities on /sys/namespaces/root within a non-root namespace could exploit special handling of the literal root path in namespace canonicalization. The /sys/namespaces/* endpoint family can resolve its containing namespace through a path prefix or X-Vault-Namespace header. ACL checks occurred before root canonicalized to an empty path, causing /sys/namespaces/root to resolve to the system backend's containing namespace and allowing permitted lookups, deletion, locking, or custom metadata changes against that direct containing namespace. The root namespace and arbitrary unrelated namespaces are not affected, and available operations depend on the capabilities granted on the path and subpaths such as /api-lock. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.5.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/openbao/openbao 0.0.0-20260617103935-d3c1cc64b1ae
  • bitnami openbao 2.5.5
  • linuxfoundation openbao 2.5.5
  • openbao openbao 2.5.5
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-55775 updated cvss 5.4

github.com/openbao/openbao: OpenBao: Unauthorized management of containing namespaces via path canonicalization flaw

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
54 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 2.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 2.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/openbao/openbao
<0.0.0-20260617103935-d3c1cc64b1ae
>=0.1.0, <=2.5.4
>=0.1.0
0.0.0-20260617103935-d3c1cc64b1ae
bitnami openbao
<2.5.5
2.5.5

Affected products

  • openbao openbao

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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