CVE-2023-25000 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-25000: Vault Vulnerable to Cache-Timing Attacks During Seal and Unseal Operations

Vendor Hashicorp
Product Vault
Weakness CWE-208
Published March 30, 2023
Last update February 13, 2025

CVSS base score

5.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 30, 2023 CVE published
February 13, 2025 Record updated