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GHSA-444V-8VXR-P36H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-22 20:36 – Updated: 2026-09-22 20:36

Summary

OpenBao Agent Writes Secrets to Stdout

Details

Impact

During certain error conditions, OpenBao Agent's exec rendering mode will incorrectly write secrets specified in env_template to stdout. This primarily happens when num_retries is met.

This vulnerability is original to Vault and was reported via the OpenBao security mailing list.

Patches

This is addressed in OpenBao v2.6.0 GA.

Severity

2.4 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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  "modified": "2026-09-22T20:36:47Z",
  "published": "2026-09-22T20:36:46Z",
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CVE-2026-77285 (GCVE-0-2026-77285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-23 17:59 – Updated: 2026-09-23 19:23

Title

OpenBao Agent Writes Secrets to Stdout

Summary

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao Agent's exec rendering mode could write secrets from env_template to standard output when command/agent/exec/exec.go re-created the template runner after repeated rendering failures, primarily after num_retries was reached. A process supervisor, log collector, or local user able to read that output could obtain the rendered secret values. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.

Severity

2.4 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-23 19:23 UTC

CWE

CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advis…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3494	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3495	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/9027257…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/ee3aa4a…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
openbao	openbao	Affected: < 2.6.0

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