CVE-2025-59043

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59043
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-59043.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-59043
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-17T16:03:23.584Z
Modified
2026-04-10T05:31:43.766323Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
OpenBao vulnerable to denial of service via malicious JSON request processing
Details

OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. In OpenBao versions prior to 2.4.1, JSON objects after decoding may use significantly more memory than their serialized version. It is possible to craft a JSON payload to maximize the factor between serialized memory usage and deserialized memory usage, similar to a zip bomb, with factors reaching approximately 35. This can be used to circumvent the maxrequestsize configuration parameter which is intended to protect against denial of service attacks. The request body is parsed into a map very early in the request handling chain before authentication, which means an unauthenticated attacker can send a specifically crafted JSON object and cause an out-of-memory crash. Additionally, for requests with large numbers of strings, the audit subsystem can consume large quantities of CPU. The vulnerability is fixed in version 2.4.1.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/59xxx/CVE-2025-59043.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openbao/openbao

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
efb9efa12f550e8322f3cec040862355e966f565

Affected versions

api/auth/approle/v0.*
api/auth/approle/v0.1.0
api/auth/approle/v0.1.1
api/auth/approle/v0.2.0
api/auth/approle/v0.3.0
api/auth/approle/v0.4.0
api/auth/approle/v0.4.1
api/auth/approle/v1.*
api/auth/approle/v1.1.0-development20240408
api/auth/approle/v2.*
api/auth/approle/v2.0.1
api/auth/approle/v2.2.0
api/auth/approle/v2.3.0
api/auth/approle/v2.4.0
api/auth/aws/v0.*
api/auth/aws/v0.1.0
api/auth/aws/v0.2.0
api/auth/aws/v0.3.0
api/auth/aws/v0.4.0
api/auth/aws/v0.4.1
api/auth/aws/v1.*
api/auth/aws/v1.1.0-development20240408
api/auth/azure/v0.*
api/auth/azure/v0.1.0
api/auth/azure/v0.2.0
api/auth/azure/v0.3.0
api/auth/azure/v0.4.0
api/auth/azure/v0.4.1
api/auth/azure/v1.*
api/auth/azure/v1.1.0-development20240408
api/auth/gcp/v0.*
api/auth/gcp/v0.1.0
api/auth/gcp/v0.2.0
api/auth/gcp/v0.3.0
api/auth/gcp/v0.4.0
api/auth/gcp/v0.4.1
api/auth/gcp/v1.*
api/auth/gcp/v1.1.0-development20240408
api/auth/jwt/v2.*
api/auth/jwt/v2.4.0
api/auth/kubernetes/v1.*
api/auth/kubernetes/v1.1.0-development20240408
api/auth/kubernetes/v2.*
api/auth/kubernetes/v2.0.1
api/auth/kubernetes/v2.2.0
api/auth/kubernetes/v2.3.0
api/auth/kubernetes/v2.4.0
api/auth/ldap/v1.*
api/auth/ldap/v1.1.0-development20240408
api/auth/ldap/v2.*
api/auth/ldap/v2.0.1
api/auth/ldap/v2.2.0
api/auth/ldap/v2.3.0
api/auth/ldap/v2.4.0
api/auth/userpass/v0.*
api/auth/userpass/v0.1.0
api/auth/userpass/v0.2.0
api/auth/userpass/v0.3.0
api/auth/userpass/v0.4.0
api/auth/userpass/v0.4.1
api/auth/userpass/v1.*
api/auth/userpass/v1.1.0-development20240408
api/auth/userpass/v2.*
api/auth/userpass/v2.0.1
api/auth/userpass/v2.2.0
api/auth/userpass/v2.3.0
api/auth/userpass/v2.4.0
api/v1.*
api/v1.0.1
api/v1.0.2
api/v1.0.3
api/v1.0.4
api/v1.1.1
api/v1.100.0-development20240408
api/v1.2.0
api/v1.3.1
api/v1.5.0
api/v1.6.0
api/v1.7.0
api/v1.7.1
api/v1.7.2
api/v1.8.0
api/v1.8.1
api/v1.8.2
api/v1.8.3
api/v1.9.0
api/v1.9.1
api/v1.9.2
api/v2.*
api/v2.0.1
api/v2.1.0
api/v2.2.0
api/v2.3.0
api/v2.4.0
Other
before-plugin-removal
dev-namespaces-base-20250215
dev-namespaces-base-20250311
dev-namespaces-base-20250424
sdk/v0.*
sdk/v0.1.10
sdk/v0.1.11
sdk/v0.1.12
sdk/v0.1.13
sdk/v0.1.8
sdk/v0.1.9
sdk/v0.2.1
sdk/v0.3.0
sdk/v0.4.1
sdk/v0.5.0
sdk/v0.5.1
sdk/v0.5.3
sdk/v0.6.0
sdk/v0.6.1
sdk/v0.6.2
sdk/v0.7.0
sdk/v0.8.0
sdk/v0.9.0
sdk/v0.9.1
sdk/v1.*
sdk/v1.100.0-development20240408
sdk/v2.*
sdk/v2.0.1
sdk/v2.1.0
sdk/v2.2.0
sdk/v2.3.0
sdk/v2.4.0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0-alpha20240329
v2.0.0-beta20240618
v2.1.0-beta20241114
v2.1.0-beta20241114.1
v2.1.0-beta20241114.2
v2.1.0-beta20241114.3
v2.2.0-beta20250213
v2.3.0-beta20250528
v2.4.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-59043.json"