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GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr

GitHub Security Advisory

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

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

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 Packages

Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.11.9)
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
Affected versions: 1.12.0 (fixed in 1.12.5)
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
Affected versions: 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.1)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr
Published
March 30, 2023 3:30 AM
Last Modified
April 7, 2023 7:23 PM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Go
Primary Package
github.com/hashicorp/vault
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 25, 2025 6:29 AM

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