CVE-2025-52893

medium

Description

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. OpenBao before v2.3.0 may leak sensitive information in logs when processing malformed data. This is separate from the earlier HCSEC-2025-09 / CVE-2025-4166. This issue has been fixed in OpenBao v2.3.0 and later. Like with HCSEC-2025-09, there is no known workaround except to ensure properly formatted requests from all clients.

References

https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-8f5r-8cmq-7fmq

https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/cf5e920badbf96b41253534a3fd5ff5063bf4b30

https://github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/releases/tag/v2.3.0

https://github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/pull/105

https://github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/commit/ed3f92181528ff776a0324107b8b55026e93766a

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-09-vault-may-expose-sensitive-information-in-error-logs-when-processing-malformed-data-with-the-kv-v2-plugin/74717

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-25

Updated: 2025-06-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00019