CVE-2023-28432 (GCVE-0-2023-28432)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-22 20:16
Modified
2025-10-21 23:15
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Summary
Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. In a cluster deployment starting with RELEASE.2019-12-17T23-16-33Z and prior to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z, MinIO returns all environment variables, including `MINIO_SECRET_KEY` and `MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD`, resulting in information disclosure. All users of distributed deployment are impacted. All users are advised to upgrade to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
minio minio Version: >= RELEASE.2019-12-17T23-16-33Z, < RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z
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Date added: 2023-04-21

Due date: 2023-05-12

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wj2x-3h3q; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28432

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