Vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault

CVE-2023-25000

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.

EPSS: 0.002 (11.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-25000?
CVE-2023-25000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, classified under CWE-208. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2023-03-30.
How severe is CVE-2023-25000?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-25000 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.