# CVE-2018-1000538: Minio Inc.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-06-26 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Minio Inc. Minio S3 server version prior to RELEASE.2018-05-16T23-35-33Z contains a Allocation of Memory Without Limits or Throttling (similar to CWE-774) vulnerability in write-to-RAM that can result in Denial of Service. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending V4-(pre)signed requests with large bodies . This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 9c8b7306f55f2c8c0a5c7cea9a8db9d34be8faa7.

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## References

- https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/9c8b7306f55f2c8c0a5c7cea9a8db9d34be8faa7#diff-e8c3bc9bc83b5516d0cc806cd461d08bL220
- https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/5957

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