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CVE-2021-21390

MITM modification of request bodies in MinIO

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

MinIO is an open-source high performance object storage service and it is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service. In MinIO before version RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z, there is a vulnerability which enables MITM modification of request bodies that are meant to have integrity guaranteed by chunk signatures. In a PUT request using aws-chunked encoding, MinIO ordinarily verifies signatures at the end of a chunk. This check can be skipped if the client sends a false chunk size that is much greater than the actual data sent: the server accepts and completes the request without ever reaching the end of the chunk + thereby without ever checking the chunk signature. This is fixed in version RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z. As a workaround one can avoid using "aws-chunked" encoding-based chunk signature upload requests instead use TLS. MinIO SDKs automatically disable chunked encoding signature when the server endpoint is configured with TLS.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • minio minio

    fixed in RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z

References 3

GitHub · minio/minio