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CVE-2021-41266

Authentication bypass issue in the Operator Console

Basic Information

CVE State
PUBLISHED
Reserved Date
September 15, 2021
Published Date
November 15, 2021
Last Updated
August 04, 2024
Vendor
minio
Product
console
Description
Minio console is a graphical user interface for the for MinIO operator. Minio itself is a multi-cloud object storage project. Affected versions are subject to an authentication bypass issue in the Operator Console when an external IDP is enabled. All users on release v0.12.2 and before are affected and are advised to update to 0.12.3 or newer. Users unable to upgrade should add automountServiceAccountToken: false to the operator-console deployment in Kubernetes so no service account token will get mounted inside the pod, then disable the external identity provider authentication by unset the CONSOLE_IDP_URL, CONSOLE_IDP_CLIENT_ID, CONSOLE_IDP_SECRET and CONSOLE_IDP_CALLBACK environment variable and instead use the Kubernetes service account token.
Tags
nuclei_scanner

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.1

8.6 - HIGH

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

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Score

Score
80.00% (Percentile: 99.05%) as of 2025-06-09

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild
Yes (2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC) Source

References

https://github.com/minio/console/security/advisories/GHSA-4999-659w-mq36 https://github.com/minio/console/pull/1217

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source Added Date
The Shadowserver (via CIRCL) 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC

Scanner Integrations

Scanner URL Date Detected
Nuclei https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-41266.yaml 2025-04-26 00:00:00 UTC

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Detected by Nuclei

  • Added to KEVIntel