# CVE-2025-62705: OpenBao and Vault Leak \[\]byte Fields in Audit Logs

- Also known as: GO-2025-4052, BIT-OPENBAO-2025-62705, GHSA-RC54-2G2C-G36G
- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.4.2, 0.0.0-20251022165510-cc2c476bac66
- Published: 2025-10-22 · Updated: 2025-10-23

## Affected

- openbao: fixed in 2.4.2
- github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20251022165510-cc2c476bac66

## Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.4.2, OpenBao's audit log did not appropriately redact fields when relevant subsystems sent []byte response parameters rather than strings. This includes, but is not limited to sys/raw with use of encoding=base64, all data would be emitted unredacted to the audit log, and Transit, when performing a signing operation with a derived Ed25519 key, would emit public keys to the audit log. This issue has been patched in OpenBao 2.4.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openbao, github.com/openbao/openbao, upgrade to a fixed version (2.4.2, 0.0.0-20251022165510-cc2c476bac66) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-rc54-2g2c-g36g
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/cc2c476bac66e1d94776c2629793daec3af625f8

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