# CVE-2022-24842: Improper Privilege Management in MinIO

> Non-admin users can create service accounts for root users to escalate privileges to root access in MinIO object storage.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Apr 2022
- **Updated:** 22 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2j69-jjmg-534q

## What is CVE-2022-24842?

CVE-2022-24842 is a high-severity vulnerability in minio, published on 12 Apr 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

MinIO is a High Performance Object Storage released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. A security issue was found where an non-admin user is able to create service accounts for root or other admin users and then is able to assume their access policies via the generated credentials. This in turn allows the user to escalate privilege to that of the root user. This vulnerability has been resolved in pull request #14729 and is included in `RELEASE.2022-04-12T06-55-35Z`. Users unable to upgrade may workaround this issue by explicitly adding a `admin:CreateServiceAccount` deny policy, however, this, in turn, denies the user the ability to create their own service accounts as well.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24842?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Minio Minio.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-24842?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-24842 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-24842 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-24842 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in minio

- [CVE-2023-28434](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28434/): MinIO Security Feature Bypass (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-28432](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28432/): MinIO Information Disclosure (high 7.5, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2020-11012](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11012/): Authentication bypass MinIO Admin API (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2026-33322](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33322/): MinIO: JWT Algorithm Confusion in OIDC Authentication (critical 9.2)
- [CVE-2026-33419](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-33419/): MinIO: LDAP login brute-force via user enumeration and missing rate limit (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-24842 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-24842 is a high-severity vulnerability in minio, published on 12 Apr 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-24842 exists.

Affected product: minio. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24842/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24842/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24842
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24842
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24842

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24842/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.