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.
https://github.com/babakizo420/security-research
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-xp3c-3jw3-4vcr
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3474
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3389
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/f58d848c139e5ba71aa63103fcfe101972b999fc
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/2e9625d6cebe4639d051ef53dd6ce7c49914ae6a
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#203
Published: 2026-09-23
Updated: 2026-09-29
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base 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
Severity: Medium
EPSS: 0.00354