CVE-2024-24747MinIO unsafe default: Access keys inherit `admin` of root user, allowing privilege escalation
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 34.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
MinIO is a High Performance Object Storage. When someone creates an access key, it inherits the permissions of the parent key. Not only for `s3:*` actions, but also `admin:*` actions. Which means unless somewhere above in the access-key hierarchy, the `admin` rights are denied, access keys will be able to simply override their own `s3` permissions to something more permissive. The vulnerability is fixed in RELEASE.2024-01-31T20-20-33Z.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- MinIO < 2024-01-31T20-20-33Z - Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51976remote, gopublished 12 Apr 2024Not verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 34.1% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/minio/minioGHSA-xx8w-mq23-29g4 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-xx8w-mq23-29g4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/0ae4915a9391ef4b3ec80f5fcdcf24ee6884e776 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2024-01-31T20-20-33Z (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-0775 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xx8w-mq23-29g4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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