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High · 8.8 CVE-2023-28433 EUVD-2023-2606GHSA-w23q-4hw3-2pp6

Minio Privilege Escalation on Windows via Path separator manipulation

Published Mar 22, 2023 · Updated Feb 25, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. All users on Windows prior to version RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z are impacted. MinIO fails to filter the `\` character, which allows for arbitrary object placement across buckets. As a result, a user with low privileges, such as an access key, service account, or STS credential, which only has permission to `PutObject` in a specific bucket, can create an admin user. This issue is patched in RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z. There are no known workarounds.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
minio minio < RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling minio +1 0.20230413.030807-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/minio/minio < 0.0.0-202303200735 0.0.0-202303200735 GHSA-w23q-4hw3-2pp6

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