CVE-2025-590437.5HighCWE-400

CVE-2025-59043: OpenBao vulnerable to denial of service via malicious JSON request processing

openbao

Affected: openbao · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.7%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

53rd percentile

050100

Higher than 53% of scored CVEs

7.5HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

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 max_request_size 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.

Affected products1

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openbao · openbao< 2.4.1

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption · Denial of Service
Vendor: openbao
Published: October 2025
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), October 2025

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