Is CVE-2025-54998 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-54998 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-54998?

CVE-2025-54998 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-54998?

CVE-2025-54998 has an EPSS score of 0.20% (10th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2025-54998?

Upgrade openbao to 2.3.2 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-54998

MEDIUM

5.3

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys. In versions 0.1.0 through 2.3.1, attackers could bypass the automatic user lockout mechanisms in the OpenBao Userpass or LDAP auth systems. This was caused by different aliasing between pre-flight and full login request user entity alias attributions. This is fixed in version 2.3.2. To work around this issue, existing users may apply rate-limiting quotas on the authentication endpoints:, see https://openbao.org/api-docs/system/rate-limit-quotas/.

CWE-307

How to fix

Remediation Available

openbaoNVD

Affected:< 2.3.2Fixed in:2.3.2CVE-2025-54998derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityLow

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.20%probability of exploitation in 30 days

10thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 10% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

github.com

Vendor Advisory1

github.com

Other references1

discuss.hashicorp.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-307 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2019-17240	Critical	9.8	40%	-	-
CVE-2023-29301	High	7.5	29%	-	-
CVE-2023-22960	High	7.5	28%	-	Fix
CVE-2020-15906	Critical	9.8	27%	-	Fix
CVE-2016-9361	Critical	9.8	20%	-	-
CVE-2024-39225	Critical	9.8	15%	-	-

Embed a live status badge for CVE-2025-54998

Markdown

[![CVE-2025-54998](https://tridentstack.com/cve/badge/CVE-2025-54998.svg)](https://tridentstack.com/cve/CVE-2025-54998)

HTML

<a href="https://tridentstack.com/cve/CVE-2025-54998"><img src="https://tridentstack.com/cve/badge/CVE-2025-54998.svg" alt="CVE-2025-54998"></a>

Find and fix vulnerabilities across your fleet

TridentStack Control continuously scans your Windows, macOS, and Linux fleet for known vulnerabilities, prioritizes them by severity and active exploitation, and patches them automatically.

Start free

This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-11-13.