Advisory record · GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr

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

CVSS 5.0 MediumEPSS 0.0021 · 11th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 30 Mar 2023, 03:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo<1.11.9 || >=1.12.0, <1.12.5 || >=1.13.0, <1.13.11.11.9, 1.12.5, 1.13.1
Identifiers
GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr · BIT-vault-2023-25000 · CVE-2023-25000 · GO-2023-1709
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-203 · CWE-208
Published
30 Mar 2023
Updated
10 Sept 2026

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.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
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

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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