CVE-2023-27589 (GCVE-0-2023-27589)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-14 18:22 – Updated: 2025-02-25 14:57
VLAI
Title
Minio vulnerable to denial of access by an admin privileged user for root credential
Summary
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`.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-25 14:29 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
minio minio Affected: >= RELEASE.2020-12-23T02-24-12Z, < RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z
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