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CVE-2023-28432
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-04-21), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.5 HIGH under NVD CVSS v3. Confidence: HIGH.
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 89EG Risk 89/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high. - EPSS PROB
- 84%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.5 HIGH.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 84% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-23). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Attend at medium mission impactAttend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wj2x-3h3q · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28432
Published
March 22, 2023
Last Modified
October 24, 2025
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Oct 20, 2026OpenAI, MinIO, And Why You Should Always Use docker-cli-scan To Keep Your Supply chAIn Clean
https://www.greynoise.io/blog/openai-minio-and-why-you-should-always-use-docker-cli-scan-to-keep-your-supply-chain-cleanAndrew Morris (afk) on X: "This is cool. Remy (@_mattata) figured out that ChatGPT's new Browser SDK was using some relatively recently known-vulnerable code (specifically MinIO CVE-2023-28432). We're also acutely aware of exploitation in the wild for this vuln literally right now. https://t.co/mm… / X
https://twitter.com/Andrew___Morris/status/1639325397241278464Information Disclosure in Cluster Deployment · Advisory · minio/minio · GitHub
https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wj2x-3h3qSecurity and Bug Fixes Release
Patch available: minio/minio RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z
https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18ZGreyNoise Visualizer | GreyNoise Visualizer
https://viz.greynoise.io/tag/minio-information-disclosure-attemptWeakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Publicly available exploits
(12 references, 10 shown)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 7 GitHub PoCs), as are 1 Nuclei detection template, 3 GitHub checker repositories. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- Metasploitauxiliary/gather/minio_bootstrap_verify_info_disc✓ verifiedPublished Mar 11, 2024
MinIO Bootstrap Verify Information Disclosure
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCBitWiz4rd/CVE-2023-28432Published Apr 13, 2024
PoC MinIO vulnerability exploit
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCyTxZx/CVE-2023-28432Published Oct 20, 2023
- GitHub checkerChocapikk/CVE-2023-28432Published Sep 5, 2023
Automated vulnerability scanner for CVE-2023-28432 in Minio deployments, revealing sensitive environment variables.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCCuerz/CVE-2023-28432Published Mar 29, 2023
CVE-2023-28432 MinIO敏感信息泄露检测脚本
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCsteponeerror/Cve-2023-28432-Published Mar 27, 2023
通过vulhub的复现过程实现了,基本的批量检测。比较垃圾但是勉强能用
Open source ↗ - GitHub checkerOkaytc/minio_unauth_checkPublished Mar 24, 2023
CVE-2023-28432,minio未授权访问检测工具
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCacheiii/CVE-2023-28432Published Mar 24, 2023
CVE-2023-28432 POC
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCMzzdToT/CVE-2023-28432Published Mar 24, 2023
MinIO敏感信息泄露漏洞批量扫描poc&exp
Open source ↗ - GitHub checkerMr-xn/CVE-2023-28432Published Mar 23, 2023
CVE-2023-28434 nuclei templates
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