Description
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's vault/policy/acl.go could evaluate a broader wildcard ACL grant before more-specific trailing-wildcard ACL paths with capabilities = ["deny"] for a LIST operation. When a parent path permitted LIST and a child path was denied, the trailing-slash lookup could therefore allow listing the denied path. Other operation types are outside the repository advisory's affected scope. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.
Published: 2026-09-23
Score: 6 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-xp3c-3jw3-4vcr OpenBao Skips Stricter Deny Policy for LIST operations
History

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Openbao
Openbao openbao
Vendors & Products Openbao
Openbao openbao

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Description OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's vault/policy/acl.go could evaluate a broader wildcard ACL grant before more-specific trailing-wildcard ACL paths with capabilities = ["deny"] for a LIST operation. When a parent path permitted LIST and a child path was denied, the trailing-slash lookup could therefore allow listing the denied path. Other operation types are outside the repository advisory's affected scope. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.
Title OpenBao LIST ACL bypass: a trailing-slash LIST request skips a more-specific deny rule (unported Vault v2.0.3 fix)
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-23T17:59:16.337Z

Reserved: 2026-07-15T16:54:55.817Z

Link: CVE-2026-63131

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No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-23T19:17:34.497

Modified: 2026-09-23T19:17:34.497

Link: CVE-2026-63131

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Updated: 2026-09-23T20:45:10Z

Weaknesses