# CVE-2024-55949: Privilege escalation in IAM import API in MinIO

- Also known as: GO-2024-3336, GHSA-CWQ8-G58R-32HG
- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z, 0.0.0-20241213221912-68b004a48f41
- Published: 2024-12-16 · Updated: 2024-12-16

## Affected

- minio: from RELEASE.2022-06-25T15-50-16Z, fixed in RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z
- github.com/minio/minio (Go): from 0.0.0-20220623162515-580d9db85e04, fixed in 0.0.0-20241213221912-68b004a48f41

## Description

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. Minio is subject to a privilege escalation in IAM import API, all users are impacted since MinIO commit `580d9db85e04f1b63cc2909af50f0ed08afa965f`. This issue has been addressed in commit `f246c9053f9603e610d98439799bdd2a6b293427` which is included in RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z. There are no workarounds possible, all users are advised to upgrade immediately.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on minio, github.com/minio/minio, upgrade to a fixed version (RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z, 0.0.0-20241213221912-68b004a48f41) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-cwq8-g58r-32hg
- https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/20756
- https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/580d9db85e04f1b63cc2909af50f0ed08afa965f
- https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/f246c9053f9603e610d98439799bdd2a6b293427

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