Fedora 43: openbao Critical Root Escalation Fix 2025-c7f4367479
fedora
December 3, 2025
update to upstream 2.4.4, fixing CVE-2025-64761
Summary
Openbao secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords,
certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing. Openbao handles
leasing, key revocation, key rolling, and auditing. Through a unified API, users
can access an encrypted Key/Value store and network encryption-as-a-service, or
generate AWS IAM/STS credentials, SQL/NoSQL databases, X.509 certificates, SSH
credentials, and more.
Update Information:
update to upstream 2.4.4, fixing CVE-2025-64761. Adds hsm tag. The fedora-43 build was done with golang-1.25.4 which fixed CVE-2025-58189, CVE-2025-58188, CVE-2025-61725, CVE-2025-61723, CVE-2025-58185, and CVE-2025-58183.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon Nov 24 2025 Dave Dykstra <2129743+DrDaveD@users.noreply.github.com> - 2.4.4-1 - update to 2.4.4 * Tue Nov 18 2025 Dave Dykstra <2129743+DrDaveD@users.noreply.github.com> - 2.4.3-2 - add hsm build tag
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2408334 - CVE-2025-58189 openbao: go crypto/tls ALPN negotiation error contains attacker controlled information [fedora-43]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2408334
[ 2 ] Bug #2408737 - CVE-2025-61725 openbao: Excessive CPU consumption in ParseAddress in net/mail [fedora-43]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2408737
[ 3 ] Bug #2409807 - CVE-2025-61723 openbao: Quadratic complexity when parsing some invalid inputs in encoding/pem [fedora-43]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2409807
[ 4 ] Bug #2410757 - CVE-2025-58185 openbao: Parsing DER payload can cause memory exhaustion in encoding/asn1 [fedora-43]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2410757
[ 5 ] Bug #2411653 - CVE-2025-58188 openbao: Panic when validating certificates with DSA public keys in crypto/x509 [fedora-43]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2411653
[ 6 ] Bug #2417146 - CVE-2025-64761 openbao: OpenBao...
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-c7f4367479' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: openbao
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 2.4.4
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://openbao.org
Summary: A tool for securely accessing secrets
Topics Covered
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