During an internal security audit, we detected an authentication bypass issue in the MinIO admin API. The security issue has been reported internally. We have not observed this exploit in the wild or reported elsewhere in the community at large. All users are advised to upgrade ASAP.
Impact
Given an admin access key, it is possible to perform admin API operations i.e. creating new service accounts for existing access keys without knowing the admin secret key. This security issue was found during a regular internal security audit.
Patches
This issue was fixed by @vadmeste in PR minio/minio#9422
Binary Download
Please download the latest server binary that contains the fix from
Docker Container Download
docker pull minio/minio:RELEASE.2020-04-23T00-58-49Z
Questions
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References
During an internal security audit, we detected an authentication bypass issue in the MinIO admin API. The security issue has been reported internally. We have not observed this exploit in the wild or reported elsewhere in the community at large. All users are advised to upgrade ASAP.
Impact
Given an admin access key, it is possible to perform admin API operations i.e. creating new service accounts for existing access keys without knowing the admin secret key. This security issue was found during a regular internal security audit.
Patches
This issue was fixed by @vadmeste in PR minio/minio#9422
Binary Download
Please download the latest server binary that contains the fix from
Docker Container Download
Questions
If you have any questions or comments regarding this advisory please reach out to us any of the following means.
References