CVE-2026-63132: OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack
Impact When running in the highly privileged recovery mode, OpenBao was vulnerable to a timing attack against the single recovery token. This allowed an attacker to extract the recovery token and use it to perform operations against the OpenBao instance, including reading or modification of data. Patches This has been patched in OpenBao v2.6.0.
Published Sep 22, 2026
Affected packages
github.com/openbao/openbao
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Affected
- < 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721
- Fixed in
- 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721
- Check
go list -m github.com/openbao/openbao
github.com/openbao/openbao
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Affected
- >= 0.1.0, <= 1.1.5
- Fixed in
- No patched version yet
- Check
go list -m github.com/openbao/openbao
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
Impact
When running in the highly privileged recovery mode, OpenBao was vulnerable to a timing attack against the single recovery token. This allowed an attacker to extract the recovery token and use it to perform operations against the OpenBao instance, including reading or modification of data.
Patches
This has been patched in OpenBao v2.6.0.
References
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3388
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3472
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/0f2d90c331f25d1c6cd108638da03f4c7bd949a8
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#203
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-34fc-gh42-pj53
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