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CVE-2026-63132: OpenBao's Recovery Mode Vulnerable To Token Leakage via Timing Attack

GitHub Advisories · officialPublished Sep 22, 2026Risk 50/100

### 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.

Upgrade affected packages to a patched version: github.com/openbao/openbao 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721.

Vendor
Not specified
Product
github.com/openbao/openbao
Exploitation
none known
Evidence
official

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