high Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2023-28432MinIO — every environment variable handed back

In a cluster deployment, MinIO returns its entire set of environment variables, which is where the root password and the secret key live. Releases from December 2019 up to the March 2023 build are affected.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Upgrade MinIO to the 2023-03-20 release or later, then rotate the root password and the secret key — a cluster that faced the network has already given them up.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
7.5/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
84%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2023-03-22
Added to KEV
2023-04-21
Exploit published
Yes
Confidence
high
Kill chain
credential access
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attacker needsNetwork access to a cluster deployment; no credentials are needed.

Behind the card

5 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2023-28432 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-09-24