CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-1000538 — Minio Minio security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

Minio Inc. Minio S3 server version prior to RELEASE.2018-05-16T23-35-33Z contains a Allocation of Memory Without Limits or Throttling (similar to CWE-774) vulnerability in write-to-RAM that can result in Denial of Service. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending V4-(pre)signed requests with large bodies . This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 9c8b7306f55f2c8c0a5c7cea9a8db9d34be8faa7.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.0)
Published
2018-06-26
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-774

Affected products

  • minio / minio

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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