CVE-2026-63131

OpenBao LIST ACL bypass: a trailing-slash LIST request skips a more-specific deny rule (unported Vault v2.0.3 fix)

MEDIUM
6
CVSS Score
Published: September 23, 2026 at 05:59 PM UTC
Updated: September 29, 2026 at 07:06 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenbao

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Severity
MEDIUM6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.6.0
Affected range stops below 2.6.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

6MEDIUMGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-863

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