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CVE-2023-25000

Vault Vulnerable to Cache-Timing Attacks During Seal and Unseal Operations

Severity Score

4.7
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

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.

A flaw was found in the Hashicorp vault. This flaw allows an attacker with access to and the ability to observe a large number of unseal operations on the host through a side channel to reduce the search space of a brute-force effort to recover the Shamir shares.

*Credits: Giuseppe Cocomazzi
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2023-02-01 CVE Reserved
  • 2023-03-30 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-02 CVE Updated
  • 2024-10-20 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-203: Observable Discrepancy
  • CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy
CAPEC
  • CAPEC-204: Lifting Sensitive Data Embedded in Cache
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Hashicorp
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Vault
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< 1.11.9
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Hashicorp
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Vault
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< 1.11.9
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enterprise
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Hashicorp
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Vault
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>= 1.12.0 < 1.12.5
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Hashicorp
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Vault
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>= 1.12.0 < 1.12.5
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enterprise
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Hashicorp
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Vault
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>= 1.13.0 < 1.13.1
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Hashicorp
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Vault
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>= 1.13.0 < 1.13.1
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enterprise
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