Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere Affecting @directus/api package, versions <28.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-DIRECTUSAPI-10753746
  • published16 Jul 2025
  • disclosed15 Jul 2025
  • creditBrainslug

Introduced: 15 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-53887  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-497  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade @directus/api to version 28.0.0 or higher.

Overview

@directus/api is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere via the /server/specs/oas endpoint. An attacker can disclose the exact version number without authentication and identify known weaknesses in the core or dependencies by querying this endpoint.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1