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archivevulnerability · 22 Sep 2026 · 20:36 UTC

GHSA-59w7-v8rr-pr4p: OpenBao's Templated Policies Allow Privilege Escalation via Wildcard Characters

VULNCVE-2026-71543source · GTH
HIGHHigh-risk vulnerability

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## Impact ### ACL Policies OpenBao supports "templated polices": Policies with placeholders that are replaced at evaluation time. This allows you to write a single policy which e.g. grants user "alice" access to all entries in a key value engine prefixed with `alice/` while granting "bob" access to `bob/`, "carol" access to `carol/`, etc. If the data used in the template can be controlled by an attacker (e.g. your system allows the user to freely select their username) and "globbing" characters are considered valid ( e.g. `*` is a valid username) they will be able to escalate their privileges.

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