{"id":"GO-2023-1709","summary":"Cache-timing attacks in Shamir's secret sharing in github.com/hashicorp/vault","details":"HashiCorp Vault's implementation of Shamir's secret sharing uses precomputed table lookups, and is vulnerable to cache-timing attacks.\n\nAn 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.","aliases":["BIT-vault-2023-25000","CVE-2023-25000","GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr"],"modified":"2026-02-04T03:29:23.204349Z","published":"2023-04-12T17:45:35Z","related":["CGA-qh3p-389j-xvm3"],"database_specific":{"url":"https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1709","review_status":"REVIEWED"},"references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/19495"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-10-vault-vulnerable-to-cache-timing-attacks-during-seal-and-unseal-operations/52078"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.11.9"},{"introduced":"1.12.0"},{"fixed":"1.12.5"},{"introduced":"1.13.0"},{"fixed":"1.13.1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"imports":[{"symbols":["Combine","Split","div","mult"],"path":"github.com/hashicorp/vault/shamir"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://vuln.go.dev/ID/GO-2023-1709.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Giuseppe Cocomazzi"}]}