Vulnerability record

CVE-2023-28432

MinIO Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity: HighExploitation: Exploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run MinIO, fix it now.

CISA required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by May 12, 2023.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

Description

Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. In a cluster deployment starting with RELEASE.2019-12-17T23-16-33Z and prior to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z, MinIO returns all environment variables, including `MINIO_SECRET_KEY` and `MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD`, resulting in information disclosure. All users of distributed deployment are impacted. All users are advised to upgrade to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

Products affected by this vulnerability, with versions and the source of each entry
ProductVendorAffected versionsFixed inSource
MinIOMinIO>= 2019-12-17t23-16-33z, < 2023-03-20t20-16-18z2023-03-20t20-16-18zKEV

Sources: KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2023-28432 scored CVSS 7.5: MinIO MinIO, MinIO Information Disclosure Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched MinIO systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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Coverage

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References

  • github.com https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wj2x-3h3q
  • nvd.nist.gov https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28432
  • github.com https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z
  • twitter.com https://twitter.com/Andrew___Morris/status/1639325397241278464
  • viz.greynoise.io https://viz.greynoise.io/tag/minio-information-disclosure-attempt
  • greynoise.io https://www.greynoise.io/blog/openai-minio-and-why-you-should-always-use-docker-cli-scan-to-keep-your-supply-c…
  • cisa.gov https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-28432