Bug 2515352 (CVE-2026-46405) - CVE-2026-46405 github.com/openbao/openbao: OpenBao: Denial of Service from unaccessible token accumulation in Kerberos authentication.
Summary: CVE-2026-46405 github.com/openbao/openbao: OpenBao: Denial of Service from un...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-46405
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-13 14:31 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-14 17:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-13 14:31:01 UTC
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.5.4, in OpenBao's Kerberos auth method on the `GET` handler, or when an `Authorization: Negotiate` header is supplied, the response is includes a `logical.Auth` object in addition to an error message. This results in tokens being created with only the default policy, default TTL, and no entity information, which are hidden by the returned error message. No access to these tokens by the caller occurs and the authentication token is not ever made accessible outside of `sys/raw`. This is fixed in OpenBao v2.5.4. As a workaround, users may set a rate limit quota to limit the creation of these paths. As the path is unauthenticated, it isn't possible to deny access to it.


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