ACTIVELY EXPLOITED

CVE-2023-28434: MinIO Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Facts
VendorMinIO
ProductMinIO
Actively exploitedYes
Added to CISA KEV19 Sep 2023
CISA federal deadline10 Oct 2023
Weakness (CWE)CWE-269

Required action (CISA's text)

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

Description (NVD)

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.

SOURCES

Other MinIO flaws

Data from NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS and vendor advisories. Updated 10 Nov 2026.