CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedOpenBao versions prior to 2.6.0 are vulnerable due to improper handling of recovery tokens in the handleLogicalRecovery path, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to infer the recovery token through timing attacks. This could lead to unauthorized access, enabling attackers to read or modify sensitive data within the system. Organizations using OpenBao for identity-based secrets management should prioritize upgrading to version 2.6.0 to mitigate this critical risk.
Public Exploit Signal
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Original NVD Description
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.