CVE-2024-34709: Directus Lacks Session Tokens Invalidation

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-613

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 10.11.0, session tokens function like the other JWT tokens where they are not actually invalidated when logging out. The `directus_session` gets destroyed and the cookie gets deleted but if the cookie value is captured, it will still work for the entire expiry time which is set to 1 day by default. Making it effectively a long lived unrevokable stateless token instead of the stateful session token it was meant to be. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.11.0.

Affected products

directus: before 10.11.0 — fixed in 10.11.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: directus 10.11.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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