Medium severity · published Mar 19, 2021
CVE-2021-21390
MinIO is an open-source high performance object storage service and it is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service
5.9
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
MinIO is an open-source high performance object storage service and it is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service. In MinIO before version RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z, there is a vulnerability which enables MITM modification of request bodies that are meant to have integrity guaranteed by chunk signatures. In a PUT request using aws-chunked encoding, MinIO ordinarily verifies signatures at the end of a chunk. This check can be skipped if the client sends a false chunk size that is much greater than the actual data sent: the server accepts and completes the request without ever reaching the end of the chunk + thereby without ever checking the chunk signature. This is fixed in version RELEASE.2021-03-17T02-33-02Z. As a workaround one can avoid using "aws-chunked" encoding-based chunk signature upload requests instead use TLS. MinIO SDKs automatically disable chunked encoding signature when the server endpoint is configured with TLS.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MI
Minio · Minio
before 2021-03-17t02-33-02z · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21390
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21390
Exploit
https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/e197800f9055489415b53cf137e31e194aaf7ba0
Exploit
https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/11801
Exploit
https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-xr7r-7gpj-5pgp
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