OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, an authenticated OpenBao caller with write access to transit/keys/* could terminate the server process by setting derived to true while the type parameter selected rsa-, ecdsa-, or ed25519. The Transit policy creation path in builtin/logical/transit/backend.go and sdk/helper/keysutil/policy.go could reach an error path that double-unlocked a mutex while handling this invalid asymmetric derived-key combination, causing a panic, no HTTP response, process exit, and denial of service. JSON and HCL key-creation requests can express the triggering combination. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.5.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-8w8f-r2xv-4q4j | OpenBao: Transit secrets engine crashes on key creation with `derived: true` for asymmetric key types |
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History
Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000
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| Description | OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, an authenticated OpenBao caller with write access to transit/keys/* could terminate the server process by setting derived to true while the type parameter selected rsa-, ecdsa-, or ed25519. The Transit policy creation path in builtin/logical/transit/backend.go and sdk/helper/keysutil/policy.go could reach an error path that double-unlocked a mutex while handling this invalid asymmetric derived-key combination, causing a panic, no HTTP response, process exit, and denial of service. JSON and HCL key-creation requests can express the triggering combination. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.5. | |
| Title | OpenBao: Transit secrets engine crashes on key creation with `derived: true` for asymmetric key types | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-617 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-15T15:43:29.564Z
Reserved: 2026-06-17T14:40:28.379Z
Link: CVE-2026-55776
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-15T16:17:16.220
Modified: 2026-09-15T16:17:16.220
Link: CVE-2026-55776
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-15T18:45:18Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA