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CVE-2023-25000 — HashiCorp Vault's implementation of Shamir's secret sharing used precomputed tab

HashiCorp Vault's implementation of Shamir's secret sharing used precomputed table lookups, and was vulnerable to cache-timing attacks. An attacker with access to, and the ability to observe a large number of unseal operations on the host through a side channel may redu

CVSS
5.0 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.03% (top 92.00%)
CWE
CWE-208
Published
2023-03-30T00:17:46.230Z
Last modified
2025-02-13T16:44:28.625Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

HashiCorp Vault's implementation of Shamir's secret sharing used precomputed table lookups, and was vulnerable to cache-timing attacks. An attacker with access to, and the ability to observe a large number of unseal operations on the host through a side channel may reduce the search space of a brute force effort to recover the Shamir shares. Fixed in Vault 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
HashiCorpVault1.13.0, 1.12.0, 1.11.0, 0
HashiCorpVault Enterprise1.13.0, 1.12.0, 1.11.0, 0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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