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CVE-2023-28434VulnerabilityPublished 09/19/2023Updated 10/24/2026

CVE-2023-28434: MinIO Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Affects MinIO MinIOSource CISA KEV

Severity
High

No CVSS score published yet

Exploitation

Actively exploited – in CISA KEV since 09/19/2023

KEV deadline
10/10/2023
EPSS
7.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 94% of CVEs

What to do

CISA required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

MinIO contains a security feature bypass vulnerability that allows an attacker to use crafted requests to bypass metadata bucket name checking and put an object into any bucket while processing `PostPolicyBucket` to conduct privilege escalation. To carry out this attack, the attacker requires credentials with `arn:aws:s3:::*` permission, as well as enabled Console API access.

Weaknesses

References

Track MinIO MinIO with alerts and the API. See plans

Added 10/24/2026 · updated 10/24/2026