CVE-2023-27589

MEDIUM

Minio RELEASE.2020-12-23T02-24-12Z-RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z - Privilege Escalation via Root Credential Overwrite

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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`.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16803

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0090
EPSS Percentile 54.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (1)
minio/minio 2020-12-23t02-24-12z - 2023-03-13t19-46-17z
Published Mar 14, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026