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CVE-2026-26185: Directus Affected by User Enumeration via Password Reset Timing Attack

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: none known
• Published: 2026-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-203

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Before 11.14.1, a timing-based user enumeration vulnerability exists in the password reset functionality. When an invalid reset_url parameter is provided, the response time differs by approximately 500ms between existing and non-existing users, enabling reliable user enumeration. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.14.1.

Affected products

• directus: before 11.15.0 — fixed in 11.15.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: directus 11.15.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/e69aa7a5248c6e3e822cb1ac354dee295df90b2a
• https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/26485
• https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.14.1
• https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-jr94-gj3h-c8rf

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