Introduction The recent discovery of CVE-2026-39396 highlights a significant vulnerability in OpenBao, an open-source identity-based secrets management system. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit the OCI plugin downloader, resulting in a potential denial of service. Incident Overview Before version 2.5.3, the function ExtractPluginFromImage() in OpenBao's OCI plugin downloader could facilitate a decompression bomb attack. An […]













