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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419486

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2023-25000)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vq4h-9ghm-qmrr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419486

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25000

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25000