CVE-2023-28432 (GCVE-0-2023-28432)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-22 20:16 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:15- CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Vendor Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 80%
Source: cisa-kev
Details
| Cwes | CWE-200 |
|---|---|
| Feed | CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog |
| Product | MinIO |
| Due Date | 2023-05-12 |
| Date Added | 2023-04-21 |
| Vendorproject | MinIO |
| Vulnerabilityname | MinIO Information Disclosure Vulnerability |
| Knownransomwarecampaignuse | Unknown |
References
Shadowserver
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Characteristics
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Honeypot
Signal: In The Wild Attempts
Confidence: 70%
Source: shadowserver
Details
| 1D | 1 |
|---|---|
| Iot | no |
| Feed | Shadowserver Foundation honeypot/exploited-vulnerabilities |
| Type | http-scan |
| Class | other-software |
| 7D Avg | 2 |
| Vendor | MinIO |
| 30D Avg | 2 |
| 90D Avg | 2 |
| Product | MinIO |
| Cisa Kev | yes |
| Connections | 2 |
| Observation Date | 2026-09-07 |
| Vulnerability Class | CVSS |
| Vulnerability Score | 0 |
| Vulnerability Severity | None |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: kevintel
Details
| Feed | KEVIntel (kevintel.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | Minio Information Disclosure in Cluster Deployment |
| Vendor | minio |
| Product | minio |
| Added Date | 2023-04-21T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 7.5 |
| Epss Score | 0.83957 |
| Cvss Severity | HIGH |
| Epss Percentile | 0.99659 |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | False |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.