GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints:, see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-54998 is rated Low Risk (34.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.16%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2026-06-05 | 0.05% | 0.16% | +0.11% |
| 2 | 2026-05-26 | 0.04% | 0.05% | +0.01% |
| 3 | 2026-03-15 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (7 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 5.3 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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3.9 | 1.4 | [email protected] |
GHSA-j3xv-7fxp-gfhx · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — OpenBao Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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alpine
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— | CVE-2025-54998: 1 source package rows (openbao); 20 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 2, open 18. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-54998 |