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Directus' insufficient permission checks can enable unauthenticated users to manually trigger Flows

  • Disclosed: 15.07.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Summary

Directus Flows with a manual trigger are not validating whether the user triggering the Flow has permissions to the items provided as payload to the Flow. Depending on what the Flow is set up to do this can lead to the Flow executing potential tasks on the attacker's behalf without authenticating.

Impact

Bad actors could execute the manual trigger Flows without authentication, or access rights to the said collection(s) or item(s).

Users with manual trigger Flows configured are impacted as these endpoints do not currently validate if the user has read access to directus_flows or to the relevant collection/items. The manual trigger Flows should have tighter security requirements as compared to webhook Flows where users are expected to perform do their own checks.

Workarounds

Users have to implement permission checks for read access to Flows and read access to relevant collection/items.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package directus < 11.9.0 11.9.0

References

CVSS score 6.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-285, CWE-287
Platform
npm
Package
directus
Disclosed
15.07.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-7cvf-pxgp-42fc - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: directus

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (58) in the archive
Total entries
58
First → latest
04.2022 07.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 2
  • High 19
  • Medium 34
  • Low 3

Disclosures per year

Severity:
  1. Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key
    High · 8.6 CVE-2026-61836 < 12.0.0 12.0.0
  2. Directus: SSRF Protection Bypass via 0.0.0.0 in File Import
    High · 7.7 CVE-2026-61835 < 12.0.0 12.0.0
  3. Directus: Authenticated Users Can Extract Concealed Fields via Aggregate Queries
    High · 8.1 CVE-2026-35442 < 11.17.0 11.17.0
  4. Directus: Unauthenticated Denial of Service via GraphQL Alias Amplification of Expensive Health Check Resolver
    High · 7.5 ghsa-6q22-g298-grjh < 11.17.0 11.17.0
  5. Directus: TUS Upload Authorization Bypass Allows Arbitrary File Overwrite
    High · 7.1 CVE-2026-35412 < 11.16.1 11.16.1
  6. Directus: SSRF Protection Bypass via IPv4-Mapped IPv6 Addresses in File Import
    High · 7.7 CVE-2026-35409 < 11.16.0 11.16.0
  7. Directus: Path Traversal and Broken Access Control in File Management API
    High · 8.5 CVE-2026-39942 < 11.17.0 11.17.0
  8. Directus: Missing Cross-Origin Opener Policy
    High · 8.7 CVE-2026-35408 < 11.17.0 11.17.0
  9. Directus allows unauthenticated file upload and file modification due to lacking input sanitization
    Critical · 9.3 CVE-2025-55746 >= 10.8.0, < 11.9.3 11.9.3
  10. Directus' insufficient permission checks can enable unauthenticated users to manually trigger Flows this entry
    Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-53889 < 11.9.0 11.9.0
  11. Directus's webhook trigger flows can leak sensitive data
    High · 8.6 CVE-2025-30353 >= 9.12.0, < 11.5.0 11.5.0
  12. Directus allows unauthenticated access to WebSocket events and operations
    High · 7.5 CVE-2024-54151 >= 11.0.0, < 11.3.0 11.3.0
  13. Session is cached for OpenID and OAuth2 if `redirect` is not used
    High · 7.4 CVE-2024-45596 < 10.13.3, >= 11.0.0-rc.1, < 11.1.0 10.13.3, 11.1.0
  14. Directus Allows Single Sign-On User Enumeration
    High · 7.5 CVE-2024-39896 >= 9.11, < 10.13.0 10.13.0
  15. Directus incorrectly handles `_in` filter
    High · 6.3 CVE-2024-39701 >= 9.23.0, < 10.6.0 10.6.0
  16. Directus is soft-locked by providing a string value to random string util
    High · 7.5 CVE-2024-36128 < 10.11.2 10.11.2
  17. Directus has MySQL accent insensitive email matching
    High · 8.2 CVE-2024-27295 < 10.8.3 10.8.3
  18. Directus crashes on invalid WebSocket message
    High · 7.5 CVE-2023-45820 >= 10.4.0, < 10.6.2 10.6.2
  19. Directus affected by VM2 sandbox escape vulnerability
    High · 7.6 ghsa-22rr-f3p8-5gf8 < 10.6.0 10.6.0
  20. directus vulnerable to HTML Injection in Password Reset email to custom Reset URL
    High · 7.5 CVE-2023-27474 < 9.23.0 9.23.0
  21. Insecure default value for CORS configuration
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2022-26969 < 9.7.0 9.7.0
  22. Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in directus
    High · 8.8 CVE-2022-24814 < 9.7.0 9.7.0

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