CVE-2026-63132

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#203
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/0f2d90c331f25d1c6cd108638da03f4c7bd949a8
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/763625a2072103ea9e9122f2a8408e0b988d287a
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3388
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3472
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53

Configurations

No configuration.

History

23 Sep 2026, 19:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-23 19:17

Updated : 2026-09-29 19:06

NVD link : CVE-2026-63132

Mitre link : CVE-2026-63132

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-63132

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-208

Observable Timing Discrepancy

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