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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-04-14 11:14

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Privilege escalation in IAM import API in MinIO

Details

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. Minio is subject to a privilege escalation in IAM import API, all users are impacted since MinIO commit 580d9db85e04f1b63cc2909af50f0ed08afa965f. This issue has been addressed in commit f246c9053f9603e610d98439799bdd2a6b293427 which is included in RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z. There are no workarounds possible, all users are advised to upgrade immediately.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "minio",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/minio"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2022.6.23"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2024.12.13"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-55949"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:minio:minio:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. Minio is subject to a privilege escalation in IAM import API, all users are impacted since MinIO commit `580d9db85e04f1b63cc2909af50f0ed08afa965f`. This issue has been addressed in commit `f246c9053f9603e610d98439799bdd2a6b293427` which is included in RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z. There are no workarounds possible, all users are advised to upgrade immediately.",
  "id": "BIT-minio-2024-55949",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2025-04-14T11:14:32.648Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/580d9db85e04f1b63cc2909af50f0ed08afa965f"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/f246c9053f9603e610d98439799bdd2a6b293427"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/20756"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-cwq8-g58r-32hg"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55949"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Privilege escalation in IAM import API in MinIO"
}

CVE-2024-55949 (GCVE-0-2024-55949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-16 20:02 – Updated: 2024-12-16 20:18

Title

Privilege escalation in IAM import API in MinIO

Summary

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. Minio is subject to a privilege escalation in IAM import API, all users are impacted since MinIO commit `580d9db85e04f1b63cc2909af50f0ed08afa965f`. This issue has been addressed in commit `f246c9053f9603e610d98439799bdd2a6b293427` which is included in RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z. There are no workarounds possible, all users are advised to upgrade immediately.

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-12-16 20:18 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisorie…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/20756	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/580d9db85e0…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/f246c9053f9…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
minio	minio	Affected: >= RELEASE.2022-06-25T15-50-16Z, < RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z

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