CVE-2021-21390

MEDIUM

MinIO <RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z - MITM

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

MinIO is an open-source high performance object storage service and it is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service. In MinIO before version RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z, there is a vulnerability which enables MITM modification of request bodies that are meant to have integrity guaranteed by chunk signatures. In a PUT request using aws-chunked encoding, MinIO ordinarily verifies signatures at the end of a chunk. This check can be skipped if the client sends a false chunk size that is much greater than the actual data sent: the server accepts and completes the request without ever reaching the end of the chunk + thereby without ever checking the chunk signature. This is fixed in version RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z. As a workaround one can avoid using "aws-chunked" encoding-based chunk signature upload requests instead use TLS. MinIO SDKs automatically disable chunked encoding signature when the server endpoint is configured with TLS.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-xr7r-7gpj-5pgp
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/11801

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 59.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-924
Status published
Products (1)
minio/minio < 2021-03-17t02-33-02z
Published Mar 19, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026