CVE-2026-55776

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, an authenticated OpenBao caller with write access to transit/keys/* could terminate the server process by setting derived to true while the type parameter selected rsa-, ecdsa-, or ed25519. The Transit policy creation path in builtin/logical/transit/backend.go and sdk/helper/keysutil/policy.go could reach an error path that double-unlocked a mutex while handling this invalid asymmetric derived-key combination, causing a panic, no HTTP response, process exit, and denial of service. JSON and HCL key-creation requests can express the triggering combination. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.5.
Configurations

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History

17 Sep 2026, 16:17

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References () https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-8w8f-r2xv-4q4j - () https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-8w8f-r2xv-4q4j -

Information

Published : 2026-09-15 16:17

Updated : 2026-09-29 19:06


NVD link : CVE-2026-55776

Mitre link : CVE-2026-55776

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-55776


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CWE
CWE-617

Reachable Assertion