CVE-2023-38503

Directus has Incorrect Permission Checking for GraphQL Subscriptions

State
Published
Severity
5.7 Medium
Published
Jul 25, 2023
Updated
Oct 10, 2024
Reserved
Jul 18, 2023

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
directusdirectus
  • >= 10.3.0, < 10.5.0Affected

References

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