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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 25, 2023· Updated Oct 10, 2024

Directus has Incorrect Permission Checking for GraphQL Subscriptions

CVE-2023-38503

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 10.3.0 and prior to version 10.5.0, the permission filters (i.e. user_created IS $CURRENT_USER) are not properly checked when using GraphQL subscription resulting in unauthorized users getting event on their subscription which they should not be receiving according to the permissions. This can be any collection but out-of-the box the directus_users collection is configured with such a permissions filter allowing you to get updates for other users when changes happen. Version 10.5.0 contains a patch. As a workaround, disable GraphQL subscriptions.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
directusnpm
>= 10.3.0, < 10.5.010.5.0

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