# CVE-2023-28432: Minio Information Disclosure in Cluster Deployment

> CVE-2023-28432: Minio Information Disclosure in Cluster Deployment. CVSS 7.5 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2023-28432
Last updated: 2025-10-21T23:15:22Z

- Published: 2023-03-22 20:16 UTC · Updated: 2025-10-21 23:15 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS: 84.0%, 100th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2023-04-21, federal due date 2023-05-12, ransomware use: Unknown
- CWE: CWE-200

## Description

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.

## CISA required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

## Affected vendors and products

- minio: minio

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28432)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28432)
- [https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z](https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2023-03-20T20-16-18Z)
- [https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wj2x-3h3q](https://github.com/minio/minio/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvq-wj2x-3h3q)
- [https://twitter.com/Andrew\_\_\_Morris/status/1639325397241278464](https://twitter.com/Andrew___Morris/status/1639325397241278464)
- [https://viz.greynoise.io/tag/minio-information-disclosure-attempt](https://viz.greynoise.io/tag/minio-information-disclosure-attempt)
- [https://www.greynoise.io/blog/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)

---

_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


---
Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2023-28432 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2023-28432.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2023-28432 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:10:54.754Z