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CVE-2025-53886: Directus doesn't redact tokens in Flow logs

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 9.0.0 and prior to version 11.9.0, when using Directus Flows with the WebHook trigger all incoming request details are logged including security sensitive data like access and refresh tokens in cookies. Malicious admins with access to the logs can hijack the user sessions within the token expiration time of them triggering the Flow. Version 11.9.0 fixes the issue.

Affected products

• directus: from 9.0.0 before 11.9.0 — fixed in 11.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: directus 11.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/22be460c76957708d67fdd52846a9ad1cbb083fb
• https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/25354
• https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.9.0
• https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-f24x-rm6g-3w5v

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