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VaultGHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr

HashiCorp Vault's implementation of Shamir's secret sharing vulnerable to cache-timing attacks

Vault

CVE-2023-25000 · Published Mar 30, 2023 · updated Sep 10, 2026

Medium4.7
Fix: upgrade to 1.11.9 or later (3 fixed versions below)
GitHub advisory

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.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
github.com/hashicorp/vault
Go
< 1.11.91.11.9
>= 1.12.0, < 1.12.51.12.5
>= 1.13.0, < 1.13.11.13.1
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