CVE-2023-27589 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-27589: Minio vulnerable to denial of access by an admin privileged user for root credential

Vendor Minio
Product minio
Weakness CWE-269
Published March 14, 2023
Last update February 25, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. Starting with RELEASE.2020-12-23T02-24-12Z and prior to RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z, a user with `consoleAdmin` permissions can potentially create a user that matches the root credential `accessKey`. Once this user is created successfully, the root credential ceases to work appropriately. The issue is patched in RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z. There are ways to work around this via adding higher privileges to the disabled root user via `mc admin policy set`.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 14, 2023 CVE published
February 25, 2025 Record updated