# CVE-2026-63131: OpenBao LIST ACL bypass: a trailing-slash LIST request skips a more-specific deny rule (unported Vault v2.0.3 fix)

- Also known as: GHSA-XP3C-3JW3-4VCR, BIT-OPENBAO-2026-63131, GO-2026-6579
- Severity: CVSS 6.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/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: 2.6.0, 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e
- Published: 2026-09-23 · Updated: 2026-09-24

## Affected

- openbao: fixed in 2.6.0
- openbao (Bitnami): fixed in 2.6.0
- github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e
- github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): from 0.1.0, through 1.1.5
- github.com/openbao/openbao (Go): fixed in 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e; from 0.1.0

## Description

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, OpenBao's vault/policy/acl.go could evaluate a broader wildcard ACL grant before more-specific trailing-wildcard ACL paths with capabilities = ["deny"] for a LIST operation. When a parent path permitted LIST and a child path was denied, the trailing-slash lookup could therefore allow listing the denied path. Other operation types are outside the repository advisory's affected scope. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openbao, github.com/openbao/openbao, upgrade to a fixed version (2.6.0, 0.0.0-20260713133043-f58d848c139e) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-xp3c-3jw3-4vcr
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3389
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3474
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/2e9625d6cebe4639d051ef53dd6ce7c49914ae6a
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/f58d848c139e5ba71aa63103fcfe101972b999fc
- https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#203
- https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0

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