{"id":"CVE-2023-27589","aliases":["EUVD-2023-31331","GHSA-9wfv-wmf7-6753"],"status":"published","title":"Minio vulnerable to denial of access by an admin privileged user for root credential","description":"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":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00898,"percentile":0.60078,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"published":"2023-03-14T18:22:35Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:45Z","products":[{"vendor":"minio","product":"minio"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-9wfv-wmf7-6753","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16803","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/27xxx/CVE-2023-27589.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27589","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2023-27589","title":"Minio vulnerable to denial of access by an admin privileged user for root credential","description":"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`.","status":"published","published":"2023-03-14T18:22:35.884Z","modified":"2025-02-25T14:57:36.535Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:35:26.63732Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2023-31331","description":"Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. 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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`.","status":"published","published":"2023-03-14T18:22:35.884Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:45.604277327Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-269"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:31.135751Z"}]}}