Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
HashiCorp Vault versions before 1.11.9, from 1.12.0 before 1.12.5, and from 1.13.0 before 1.13.1 are affected. An attacker who can observe a large number of unseal operations on the host through a cache-timing side channel may narrow the search space for recovering Shamir key shares. Upgrade to Vault 1.11.9, 1.12.5, or 1.13.1, depending on your release line.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | Medium | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N | CNA (HashiCorp) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0021, the 11th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr
- OSV: GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25000
- github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/19495
- discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-10-vault-vulnerable-to-cache-timing-attacks-during-seal-and-unseal-operations/52078
- github.com/hashicorp/vault
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230526-0008