# CVE-2023-27589: Minio vulnerable to denial of access by an admin privileged user for root credential

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z
- Published: 2023-03-14 · Updated: 2025-02-25

## Affected

- minio: from RELEASE.2020-12-23T02-24-12Z, fixed in RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z

## 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`.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on minio, upgrade to a fixed version (RELEASE.2023-03-13T19-46-17Z) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-9wfv-wmf7-6753
- https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/16803

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