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CVE-2025-53889— Directus missing permission checks for manual trigger Flows

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Affected
directus directus
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No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Directus是Directus开源的一个实时 Api 和应用程序仪表板。用于管理 Sql 数据库内容。 Directus 9.12.0至11.9.0之前版本存在授权问题漏洞，该漏洞源于手动触发流程未验证权限，可能导致未授权操作。

CVSS 6.5 · Medium EPSS 0.44% · P36
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2025-53889

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Vulnerability Title
Directus missing permission checks for manual trigger Flows
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 9.12.0 and prior to version 11.9.0, 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. 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. Version 11.9.0 fixes the issue. As a workaround, implement permission checks for read access to Flows and read access to relevant collection/items.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
认证机制不恰当
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Directus 授权问题漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Directus是Directus开源的一个实时 Api 和应用程序仪表板。用于管理 Sql 数据库内容。 Directus 9.12.0至11.9.0之前版本存在授权问题漏洞，该漏洞源于手动触发流程未验证权限，可能导致未授权操作。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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directus directus >= 9.12.0, < 11.9.0 -

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Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-53889 (1)

Same Patch Batch · directus · 2025-07-14 · 4 CVEs total

CVE-2025-53887 5.3 MEDIUM Directus's exact version number is exposed by the OpenAPI Spec
CVE-2025-53886 4.5 MEDIUM Directus doesn't redact tokens in Flow logs
CVE-2025-53885 4.2 MEDIUM Directus doesn't redact sensitive user data when logging via event hooks

IV. Related Vulnerabilities

Same product: directus
Same vendor: directus
Same weakness: CWE-287

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