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Fedora 44 Openbao Critical Sec Fix DoS Token Management 2026-c7450bfed6

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Critical security updates for Openbao on Fedora 44 improving protection against multiple threats.
Update to upstream 2.5.3, fix CVE-2026-34986, CVE-2026-39388, CVE-2026-39396, CVE-2026-40264

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 2.5.3, fix CVE-2026-34986, CVE-2026-39388, CVE-2026-39396, CVE-2026-40264

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Change Log

* Tue Apr 21 2026 Dave Dykstra <2129743+DrDaveD@users.noreply.github.com> - 2.5.3-1 - update to upstream 2.5.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2455630 - CVE-2026-34986 openbao: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455630 [ 2 ] Bug #2459846 - openbao-2.5.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459846 [ 3 ] Bug #2460057 - CVE-2026-39388 openbao: OpenBao: Token renewal vulnerability via incorrect certificate matching in Certificate authentication. [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460057 [ 4 ] Bug #2460059 - CVE-2026-39396 openbao: OpenBao: Denial of Service via decompression bomb in OCI plugin extraction [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460059 [ 5 ] Bug #2460061 - CVE-2026-40264 openbao: OpenBao: Unauthorized token management by privileged administrator [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460061

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-c7450bfed6' 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 44
Version: 2.5.3
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://openbao.org
Summary: A tool for securely accessing secrets

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