HashiCorp Vault's implementation of Shamir's secret sharing uses precomputed table lookups, and is 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.
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