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TI-2022-08654 Aliases CVE-2022-24842

Improper Privilege Management in MinIO

Priority HIGH 73CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.

Summary

MinIO is a High Performance Object Storage released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. A security issue was found where an non-admin user is able to create service accounts for root or other admin users and then is able to assume their access policies via the generated credentials. This in turn allows the user to escalate privilege to that of the root user. This vulnerability has been resolved in pull request #14729 and is included in `RELEASE.2022-04-12T06-55-35Z`. Users unable to upgrade may workaround this issue by explicitly adding a `admin:CreateServiceAccount` deny policy, however, this, in turn, denies the user the ability to create their own service accounts as well.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.02117 81st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

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Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
MinIOminio< RELEASE.2022-04-12T06-55-35Z—No fix listedCNA
  • minio VendorMinIO Affected < RELEASE.2022-04-12T06-55-35Z Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:minio:minio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2021-12-09t06-19-41z to before 2022-04-12t06-55-35zVulnerableMinIO
  • cpe:2.3:a:minio:minio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2021-12-09t06-19-41z to before 2022-04-12t06-55-35z Vulnerable ·MinIO

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-24842

References

Exploit 1

Patch 2

  • TI-2023-12978 MinIO is vulnerable to privilege escalation on Linux/MacOS KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2023-12976 Minio Information Disclosure in Cluster Deployment KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-11082 Allowed DELETE on resources on object locked buckets under Governance mode in Minio CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2024-16264 MinIO unsafe default: Access keys inherit `admin` of root user, allowing privilege escalation CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2022-13073 Possible DDOS by establishing keep-alive connections with anonymous HTTP clients in MinIO CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2022-16346 Authenticated requests for server update admin API allows path traversal in minio CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
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Sources

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