CVE-2023-28432

CRITICALNVD 7.59.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” 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.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Exploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • 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
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 84%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. In a cluster deployment starting with RELEASE.2019-12-17T23-16-33Z and prior to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z, MinIO returns all environment variables, including MINIO_SECRET_KEY and MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD, resulting in information disclosure. All users of distributed deployment are impacted. All users are advised to upgrade to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
89
EG 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, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: github_release, github.
Web page

OpenAI, 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-clean
Web page

Andrew 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/1639325397241278464
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Information Disclosure in Cluster Deployment · Advisory · minio/minio · GitHub

https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wj2x-3h3q
GitHub release Patch Available

Security and Bug Fixes Release

Patch available: minio/minio RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z

https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z
Web page

GreyNoise Visualizer | GreyNoise Visualizer

https://viz.greynoise.io/tag/minio-information-disclosure-attempt

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 202 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 102 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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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✓ verified
    Published Mar 11, 2024

    MinIO Bootstrap Verify Information Disclosure

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCBitWiz4rd/CVE-2023-28432
    Published Apr 13, 2024

    PoC MinIO vulnerability exploit

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCyTxZx/CVE-2023-28432
    Published Oct 20, 2023
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkerChocapikk/CVE-2023-28432
    Published Sep 5, 2023

    Automated vulnerability scanner for CVE-2023-28432 in Minio deployments, revealing sensitive environment variables.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCCuerz/CVE-2023-28432
    Published 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_check
    Published Mar 24, 2023

    CVE-2023-28432,minio未授权访问检测工具

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCacheiii/CVE-2023-28432
    Published Mar 24, 2023

    CVE-2023-28432 POC

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCMzzdToT/CVE-2023-28432
    Published Mar 24, 2023

    MinIO敏感信息泄露漏洞批量扫描poc&exp

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkerMr-xn/CVE-2023-28432
    Published Mar 23, 2023

    CVE-2023-28434 nuclei templates

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2023-28432?
CVE-2023-28432 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 22, 2023. Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. In a cluster deployment starting with RELEASE.2019-12-17T23-16-33Z and prior to RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z, MinIO returns all environment variables, including MINIOSECRETKEY and MINIOROOTPASSWORD, resulting in information disclosure. All users of…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-28432 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-28432 was published on March 22, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 24, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-28432 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2023-28432 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on April 21, 2023, affecting MinIO MinIO. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-28432?
CVE-2023-28432 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2023-28432?
CVE-2023-28432 affects MinIO MinIO.
How do I remediate CVE-2023-28432?
A fix for CVE-2023-28432 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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