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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2023-27589 EUVD-2023-31331

Minio vulnerable to denial of access by an admin privileged user for root credential

Published Mar 14, 2023 · Updated Feb 25, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
minio minio >= RELEASE.2020-12-23T02-24-12Z, < RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z —

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