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CVE-2023-28434

71
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-28434 is a high-severity security feature bypass vulnerability affecting Minio, a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework, in versions prior to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker with specific AWS S3 permissions and Console API access to bypass metadata bucket name checks and place objects into any bucket, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CVSS 8.8). The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, listed on CISA's KEV catalog, and has a high EPSS score, indicating a significant likelihood of exploitation. Immediate patching to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z or enabling browser API access while disabling MINIO_BROWSER is recommended.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2023-03-20t20-16-18zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:minio:minio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Sep 19, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0668 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/minio/minioFixed in: 0.0.0-202303200415

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-2pxw-r47w-4p8chigh

Privilege Escalation on Linux/MacOS

Sep 5, 2023

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
github.com / minio/minio/commit/67f4ba154a27a1b06e48bfabda38355a010dfca5
Patch
github.com / minio/minio/pull/16849
ExploitIssue Tracking
github.com / minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-2pxw-r47w-4p8c
Vendor Advisory