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title: "Security digest: August 8, 2025"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2025-08-08/
description: "August 8, 2025 vulnerability digest: 1 critical advisory (Go). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-08-08
date_modified: 2025-08-08
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: August 8, 2025

1 critical advisory.

## Take stock

- Go: 1 critical advisory ( github.com/openbao/openbao ). Check with govulncheck ./... .
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

- [CVE-2025-54997](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-54997/index.md) Privileged OpenBao Operator May Execute Code on the Underlying Host — Go github.com/openbao/openbao >= 0.1.0, < 2.3.2 → 2.3.2; Go github.com/openbao/openbao < 0.0.0-20250806194004-a14053c9679d → 0.0.0-20250806194004-a14053c9679d

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