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Directus vulnerable to unhandled exception on illegal filename_disk value

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 19, 2022 in directus/directus • Updated Jan 28, 2023

Package

npm directus (npm)

Affected versions

< 9.15.0

Patched versions

9.15.0

Description

The Directus process can be aborted by having an authorized user update the filename_disk value to a folder and accessing that file through the /assets endpoint.

The vulnerability is patched and released in v9.15.0.

You can prevent this problem by making sure no (untrusted) non-admin users have permissions to update the filename_disk field on directus_files.

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Credits

This vulnerability was first discovered and reported by Witold Gorecki.

References

@rijkvanzanten rijkvanzanten published to directus/directus Aug 19, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 19, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 30, 2022
Reviewed Aug 30, 2022
Last updated Jan 28, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.079%
(35th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-36031

GHSA ID

GHSA-77qm-wvqq-fg79

Source code

Credits

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