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Privilege Escalation on Linux/MacOS

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 21, 2023 in minio/minio • Updated Sep 5, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/minio/minio (Go)

Affected versions

< 0.0.0-202303200415

Patched versions

0.0.0-202303200415

Description

Impact

An attacker can use crafted requests to bypass metadata bucket name checking and put an object into any bucket while processing PostPolicyBucket. To carry out this attack, the attacker requires credentials with arn:aws:s3:::* permission, as well as enabled Console API access.

Patches

commit 67f4ba154a27a1b06e48bfabda38355a010dfca5
Author: Aditya Manthramurthy <donatello@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Sun Mar 19 21:15:20 2023 -0700

    fix: post policy request security bypass (#16849)

Workarounds

Browser API access must be enabled turning off MINIO_BROWSER=off allows for this workaround.

References

The vulnerable code:

// minio/cmd/generic-handlers.go
func setRequestValidityHandler(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
  return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    // ...
    // For all other requests reject access to reserved buckets
    bucketName, _ := request2BucketObjectName(r)
    if isMinioReservedBucket(bucketName) || isMinioMetaBucket(bucketName) {
      if !guessIsRPCReq(r) && !guessIsBrowserReq(r) && !guessIsHealthCheckReq(r) && !guessIsMetricsReq(r) && !isAdminReq(r) && !isKMSReq(r) {
        if ok {
          tc.FuncName = "handler.ValidRequest"
          tc.ResponseRecorder.LogErrBody = true
        }
        writeErrorResponse(r.Context(), w, errorCodes.ToAPIErr(ErrAllAccessDisabled), r.URL)
        return
      }
    }
    // ...

References

@harshavardhana harshavardhana published to minio/minio Mar 21, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 22, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 5, 2023
Reviewed Sep 5, 2023
Last updated Sep 5, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

7.247%
(94th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-28434

GHSA ID

GHSA-2pxw-r47w-4p8c

Source code

Credits

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