Directus privilege escalation vulnerability using Share feature
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
Am I Vulnerable?
Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2025-24353
Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
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
More from directus
View All →Affected Vendor
directus
View all reports →