Information Exposure Affecting directus package, versions <9.16.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-DIRECTUS-3356644
  • published8 Mar 2023
  • disclosed8 Mar 2023
  • creditwgorecki, Erik van Oosbree

Introduced: 8 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-27481  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade directus to version 9.16.0 or higher.

Overview

directus is a Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure when users with read access to the password field in directus_users can extract the argon2 password hashes by brute-forcing the export functionality combined with a _starts_with filter. This allows the user to enumerate the password hashes.

Workaround

Users unable to upgrade may mitigate this issue by ensuring that no user has read access to the password field in directus_users.

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