CriticalCritical vulnerability
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.
Recommended action
Recommended action
Upgrade affected packages to a patched version: github.com/openbao/openbao 0.0.0-20260713141742-763625a20721.
Technical details
- Vendor
- Not specified
- Product
- github.com/openbao/openbao
- Exploitation
- none known
- Evidence
- official
Evidence and sources
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