CVE-2025-59043

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.

• CWE-400

• https://github.com/openbao/openbao/blob/788536bd3e10818a7b4fb00aac6affc23388e5a9/http/logical.go#L50Product
• https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/d418f238bc99adc72c73109faf574cc2b672880cPatch
• https://github.com/openbao/openbao/pull/1756Issue Tracking
• https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-g46h-2rq9-gw5mVendor Advisory

Published

Oct 17, 2025

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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