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CVE-2025-24353: Directus privilege escalation vulnerability using Share feature

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2025-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to version 11.2.0, when sharing an item, a typical user can specify an arbitrary role. It allows the user to use a higher-privileged role to see fields that otherwise the user should not be able to see. Instances that are impacted are those that use the share feature and have specific roles hierarchy and fields that are not visible for certain roles. Version 11.2.0 contains a patch the issue.

Affected products

• directus: before 11.2.0 — fixed in 11.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: directus 11.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/e288a43a79613dada905da683f4919c6965ac804
• https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/23716
• https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.2.0
• https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-pmf4-v838-29hg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbV4IxbWzN4

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