CVE-2024-45596: Directus's session is cached for OpenID and OAuth2 if `redirect` is not used

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-524

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. An unauthenticated user can access credentials of last authenticated user via OpenID or OAuth2 where the authentication URL did not include redirect query string. This happens because on that endpoint for both OpenId and Oauth2 Directus is using the respond middleware, which by default will try to cache GET requests that met some conditions. Although, those conditions do not include this scenario, when an unauthenticated request returns user credentials. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.13.3 and 11.1.0.

Affected products

directus: before 10.13.3; from 11.0.0 before 11.1.0 — fixed in 10.13.3, 11.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: directus 10.13.3, 11.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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