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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2024-55949 json

Privilege escalation in IAM import API in MinIO

published 2024-12-16 22 mo ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also EUVD-2024-3532 , GHSA-cwq8-g58r-32hg , GO-2024-3336

cvss
9.3
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. Minio is subject to a privilege escalation in IAM import API, all users are impacted since MinIO commit `580d9db85e04f1b63cc2909af50f0ed08afa965f`. This issue has been addressed in commit `f246c9053f9603e610d98439799bdd2a6b293427` which is included in RELEASE.2024-12-13T22-19-12Z. There are no workarounds possible, all users are advised to upgrade immediately.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/minio/minio 0.0.0-20241213221912-68b004a48f41
  • minio minio v0.0.0-20241213221912-68b004a48f41
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241218T202206-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14603-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-55949 updated cvss 8.1

minio: Privilege escalation in IAM import API in MinIO

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift API for Data Protection oadp/oadp-velero-rhel8, oadp/oadp-rhel8-operator, oadp/oadp-mustgather-rhel8, oadp/oadp-velero-plugin-for-csi-rhel8, oadp/oadp-velero-restic-restore-helper-rhel8 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/thanos-rhel7, rhacm2/volsync-rhel8 Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 rhceph/rhceph-promtail-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 rhceph/rhceph-promtail-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 rhceph/rhceph-promtail-rhel9
    +4 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) odh-operator-container, odh-dashboard-container, odh-trustyai-service-rhel8, odh-ml-pipelines-driver-rhel8, odh-ml-pipelines-launcher-rhel8, odh-ml-pipelines-cache-container, +10 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-rhel8-operator, rhods/odh-ml-pipelines-cache-rhel8, rhods/odh-ml-pipelines-api-server-rhel8, rhods/odh-ml-pipelines-artifact-manager-rhel8, rhods/odh-ml-pipelines-persistenceagent-rhel8, rhods/odh-ml-pipelines-scheduledworkflow-rhel8, +1 more Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8, quay/quay-operator-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
22 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 9.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 9.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/minio/minio
>=0.0.0-20220623162515-580d9db85e04, <0.0.0-20241213221912-68b004a48f41
0.0.0-20241213221912-68b004a48f41

Affected products

  • minio minio

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.