CVE-2023-25812

Allowed DELETE on resources on object locked buckets under Governance mode in Minio

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 21, 2023 at 08:32 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:42 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMinIO

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1.0%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Minio is a Multi-Cloud Object Storage framework. Affected versions do not correctly honor a `Deny` policy on ByPassGoverance. Ideally, minio should return "Access Denied" to all users attempting to DELETE a versionId with the special header `X-Amz-Bypass-Governance-Retention: true`. However, this was not honored instead the request will be honored and an object under governance would be incorrectly deleted. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2020-04-10t03-34-42z ≤ v < 2023-02-17t17-52-43z>= RELEASE.2020-4-10T3-34-42Z, < RELEASE.2023-2-17T17-52-43Z
Affected range stops below 2023-02-17t17-52-43z, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-281NVD-CWE-noinfo

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