Actively exploited in the wild
MinIO Information Disclosure Vulnerability
MinIO - MinIO · Listed in the CISA KEV since 2023-04-21. This indicates confirmed attacks in production environments.
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CVE-2023-28432
HighCVSS 7.5KEVSummary
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.
Risk Assessment
Disclosure of keys and passwords could enable unauthorized access to MinIO data and infrastructure.
Recommendation
Upgrade MinIO to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z or later.
Other vulnerabilities in MinIO
See all- CVE-2026-39414Medium
MinIO from RELEASE.2018-08-18T03-49-57Z to before RELEASE.2025-12-20T04-58-37Z is vulnerable to memory exhaustion when processing CSV files containing lines longer than available memory. The CSV reader's nextSplit() function calls bufio.Reader.ReadBytes('\n') with no size limit, buffering the entire input in memory until a newline is found. A CSV file with no newline characters causes the entire contents to be read into a single allocation, leading to an OOM crash of the MinIO server process. This is exploitable by any authenticated user with s3:PutObject and s3:GetObject permissions. The attack is especially practical when combined with compression: a ~2 MB gzip-compressed CSV can decompress to gigabytes of data without newlines.
- CVE-2026-34204High
In MinIO, a flaw in extractMetadataFromMime() allows any authenticated user with s3:PutObject permission to inject internal server-side encryption metadata into objects by sending crafted X-Minio-Replication-* headers on a PutObject request.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.