# CVE-2026-55774: OpenBao: Cross-namespace lease revocation/renewal via canonical sys/leases/{revoke,renew} — incomplete fix of CVE-2026-45808

- Also known as: GO-2026-5304, BIT-OPENBAO-2026-55774, GHSA-C36X-H252-G9X2
- Severity: CVSS 2.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.5.5, 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- openbao: fixed in 2.5.5
- github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404; from 0.1.0
- github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): from 0.1.0, through 2.5.4
- github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404

## Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.5.5, an OpenBao user with access to sys/leases/revoke/:lease_id in one namespace could revoke a lease in another namespace when the foreign lease_id was known, bypassing namespace ACL isolation. The affected lease lookup routing in vault/expiration.go allowed FetchLeaseInfo and loadEntry to resolve cached or stored lease data outside the request namespace, allowing a tenant that intentionally disclosed a lease identifier to have the lease and its underlying credential revoked by another tenant. This issue is fixed in version 2.5.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openbao, github.com/openbao/openbao, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.5, 0.0.0-20260617103932-b20b999dd404) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-c36x-h252-g9x2
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3307
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3310
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/9ba1413d793223cca67db12434093a2f25fdc540
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/b20b999dd4044d7b419a5472d8fe08407828be37
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.5.5
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0

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