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CVE-2025-24353: Directus privilege escalation vulnerability using Share feature

5.0 CVSS

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to version 11.2.0, when sharing an item, a typical user can specify an arbitrary role. It allows the user to use a higher-privileged role to see fields that otherwise the user should not be able to see. Instances that are impacted are those that use the share feature and have specific roles hierarchy and fields that are not visible for certain roles. Version 11.2.0 contains a patch the issue.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-24353

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.0

Affected Products

Vendor: directus

Product: directus

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.97% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-21 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-pmf4-v838-29hg
https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/23716
https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/e288a43a79613dada905da683f4919c6965ac804
https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.2.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbV4IxbWzN4

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