# Privileged OpenBao Operator May Execute Code on the Underlying Host

Advisory record · `GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp` · `BIT-openbao-2025-54997` · `CVE-2025-54997` · `GO-2025-3858`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.1 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-94](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html)
- **Tags:** [Code injection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/code-injection.md)
- **Published:** 8 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 27 Jul 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 8 Aug 2025, 14:37 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `github.com/openbao/openbao` (Go): affected `>=0.1.0, <2.3.2 || <0.0.0-20250806194004-a14053c9679d`; fixed in `2.3.2`, `0.0.0-20250806194004-a14053c9679d`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.1 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0046, the 40th percentile, on 15 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:56 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:56 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp)
- [OSV: GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp)
- <https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54997>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6000>
- <https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1634>
- <https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/a14053c9679d6e9cf370f00cf933476cda6d84a2>
- <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-14-privileged-vault-operator-may-execute-code-on-the-underlying-host/76033>
- <https://github.com/openbao/openbao>
- <https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.3.2>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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The web page: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/GHSA-xp75-r577-cvhp/>. Everything for agents: <https://agentprime.io/llms.txt>.