{"id":"CVE-2026-71543","summary":"OpenBao's Templated Policies Allow Privilege Escalation via Wildcard Characters","details":"OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to 2.6.0, templated ACL, PKI, and SSH policies could substitute attacker-controlled identity data without rejecting syntax-significant characters. In ACL templated policies, asterisks, plus signs, and slashes could alter path matching. In PKI allowed_uri_sans_template and allowed_domains policies, an asterisk could broaden certificate issuance to unauthorized domains. In SSH allowed_users and allowed_domains policies, a comma could add unauthorized principals. Exploitation requires a deployment to use templated policy data that users can freely modify; templates based on the randomly generated identity.entity.id value are not affected. This could allow privilege escalation, unauthorized access, and unauthorized certificate issuance. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.0.","aliases":["GHSA-59w7-v8rr-pr4p"],"modified":"2026-09-23T03:46:46.931542848Z","published":"2026-09-21T15:03:59.159Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-863"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/71xxx/CVE-2026-71543.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#201"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.6.0"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/71xxx/CVE-2026-71543.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-59w7-v8rr-pr4p"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71543"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/2d4ebafec5c524408b3d4ac1198df909cb7ac8c1"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/e516ce508e1481504cadbfbf62052364339093bc"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3401"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/3473"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/openbao/openbao","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2d4ebafec5c524408b3d4ac1198df909cb7ac8c1"},{"fixed":"e516ce508e1481504cadbfbf62052364339093bc"},{"fixed":"03e3a243b6f07d17c60ce0a182adee7cf4c424eb"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.6.0"}],"source":["AFFECTED_FIELD","REFERENCES"]}}],"versions":["sdk/v2.6.1","v2.6.0-beta20260622","sdk/v2.6.0","api/v2.6.0","api/auth/userpass/v2.6.0","api/auth/ldap/v2.6.0","api/auth/kubernetes/v2.6.0","api/auth/jwt/v2.6.0","api/auth/approle/v2.6.0","v2.5.0-beta20251125","sdk/v2.5.0","api/v2.5.0","api/auth/userpass/v2.5.0","api/auth/ldap/v2.5.0","api/auth/kubernetes/v2.5.0","api/auth/jwt/v2.5.0","api/auth/approle/v2.5.0","v2.4.0","sdk/v2.4.0","api/v2.4.0","api/auth/userpass/v2.4.0","api/auth/ldap/v2.4.0","api/auth/kubernetes/v2.4.0","api/auth/jwt/v2.4.0","api/auth/approle/v2.4.0","v2.3.0-beta20250528","sdk/v2.3.0","api/v2.3.0","api/auth/userpass/v2.3.0","api/auth/ldap/v2.3.0","api/auth/kubernetes/v2.3.0","api/auth/approle/v2.3.0","dev-namespaces-base-20250424","dev-namespaces-base-20250311","v2.2.0-beta20250213","dev-namespaces-base-20250215","sdk/v2.2.0","api/v2.2.0","api/auth/userpass/v2.2.0","api/auth/ldap/v2.2.0","api/auth/kubernetes/v2.2.0","api/auth/approle/v2.2.0","v2.1.0-beta20241114.3","v2.1.0-beta20241114.2","v2.1.0-beta20241114.1","v2.1.0-beta20241114","sdk/v2.1.0","api/v2.1.0","v2.0.0","sdk/v2.0.1","api/v2.0.1","api/auth/userpass/v2.0.1","api/auth/ldap/v2.0.1","api/auth/kubernetes/v2.0.1","api/auth/approle/v2.0.1","v2.0.0-beta20240618","sdk/v1.100.0-development20240408","api/v1.100.0-development20240408","api/auth/userpass/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/ldap/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/kubernetes/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/gcp/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/azure/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/aws/v1.1.0-development20240408","api/auth/approle/v1.1.0-development20240408","v2.0.0-alpha20240329","before-plugin-removal","api/auth/userpass/v0.4.1","api/auth/gcp/v0.4.1","api/auth/azure/v0.4.1","api/auth/aws/v0.4.1","api/auth/approle/v0.4.1","sdk/v0.9.1","api/v1.9.2","api/v1.9.1","sdk/v0.9.0","api/auth/userpass/v0.4.0","api/auth/gcp/v0.4.0","api/auth/azure/v0.4.0","api/auth/aws/v0.4.0","api/auth/approle/v0.4.0","sdk/v0.8.0","api/v1.9.0","api/v1.8.3","sdk/v0.7.0","sdk/v0.6.2","sdk/v0.6.1","api/v1.8.2","api/v1.8.1","api/auth/userpass/v0.3.0","api/auth/gcp/v0.3.0","api/auth/azure/v0.3.0","api/auth/aws/v0.3.0","api/auth/approle/v0.3.0","api/v1.8.0","sdk/v0.6.0","api/auth/userpass/v0.2.0","api/auth/gcp/v0.2.0","api/auth/azure/v0.2.0","api/auth/aws/v0.2.0","api/auth/approle/v0.2.0","sdk/v0.5.3","api/v1.7.2","sdk/v0.5.1","api/v1.7.1","api/v1.7.0","api/v1.6.0","sdk/v0.5.0","api/v1.5.0","sdk/v0.4.1","api/v1.3.1","api/auth/approle/v0.1.1","api/auth/gcp/v0.1.0","api/auth/azure/v0.1.0","api/auth/userpass/v0.1.0","api/auth/aws/v0.1.0","api/auth/approle/v0.1.0","sdk/v0.3.0","api/v1.2.0","api/v1.1.1","sdk/v0.2.1","api/v1.0.4","sdk/v0.1.13","api/v1.0.3","sdk/v0.1.12","sdk/v0.1.11","sdk/v0.1.10","api/v1.0.2","sdk/v0.1.9","api/v1.0.1","sdk/v0.1.8"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-71543.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"}]}