CVE-2021-41266 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2021-41266
Vulnerability Scoring

8.6
/10
Severe Risk

Cybersecurity professionals consider CVE-2021-41266 an immediate threat requiring urgent mitigation.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: Low
    Exploits can be performed without significant complexity or special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Network
    Vulnerability is exploitable over a network without physical access.
  • Privileges Required: None
    No privileges are required for exploitation.
  • Scope: Unchanged
    Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2021-41266 Details

Status: Modified

Last updated: 🕕 21 Nov 2024, 06:25 UTC
Originally published on: 🕘 15 Nov 2021, 21:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 1101 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

security-advisories@github.com

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

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

CVE-2021-41266 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-41266: 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.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2021-41266

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2021-41266 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2021-41266

With low attack complexity and no required privileges, CVE-2021-41266 is an easy target for cybercriminals. Organizations should prioritize immediate mitigation measures to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2021-41266, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2021-41266, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: High
    Exploiting CVE-2021-41266 can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, severely compromising data privacy.
  • Integrity: Low
    Exploiting CVE-2021-41266 may cause minor changes to data without severely impacting its accuracy.
  • Availability: Low
    CVE-2021-41266 may slightly degrade system performance without fully affecting service availability.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

The EPSS score estimates the probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the near future.

EPSS Score: 31.519% (probability of exploit)

EPSS Percentile: 97.11% (lower percentile = lower relative risk)
This vulnerability is less risky than approximately 2.8900000000000006% of others.

CVE-2021-41266 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-306

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Choosing Message Identifier CAPEC-12 This pattern of attack is defined by the selection of messages distributed via multicast or public information channels that are intended for another client by determining the parameter value assigned to that client. This attack allows the adversary to gain access to potentially privileged information, and to possibly perpetrate other attacks through the distribution means by impersonation. If the channel/message being manipulated is an input rather than output mechanism for the system, (such as a command bus), this style of attack could be used to change the adversary's identifier to more a privileged one.
  • Force the System to Reset Values CAPEC-166 An attacker forces the target into a previous state in order to leverage potential weaknesses in the target dependent upon a prior configuration or state-dependent factors. Even in cases where an attacker may not be able to directly control the configuration of the targeted application, they may be able to reset the configuration to a prior state since many applications implement reset functions.
  • Communication Channel Manipulation CAPEC-216 An adversary manipulates a setting or parameter on communications channel in order to compromise its security. This can result in information exposure, insertion/removal of information from the communications stream, and/or potentially system compromise.
  • Using Unpublished Interfaces or Functionality CAPEC-36 An adversary searches for and invokes interfaces or functionality that the target system designers did not intend to be publicly available. If interfaces fail to authenticate requests, the attacker may be able to invoke functionality they are not authorized for.
  • Cross Site Request Forgery CAPEC-62 An attacker crafts malicious web links and distributes them (via web pages, email, etc.), typically in a targeted manner, hoping to induce users to click on the link and execute the malicious action against some third-party application. If successful, the action embedded in the malicious link will be processed and accepted by the targeted application with the users' privilege level. This type of attack leverages the persistence and implicit trust placed in user session cookies by many web applications today. In such an architecture, once the user authenticates to an application and a session cookie is created on the user's system, all following transactions for that session are authenticated using that cookie including potential actions initiated by an attacker and simply "riding" the existing session cookie.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.3.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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  • cpe:2.3:a:min:minio_console:0.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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