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CVE-2026-61836: Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 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: 2026-07-15 · updated 2026-07-28
• Weakness: CWE-524

Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 12.0.0, when response caching is enabled, the cache-key derivation in api/src/utils/get-cache-key.ts includes version, path, query, and accountability.user but omits authorization context such as share, role, roles, admin, app, and policies. Directus share tokens and anonymous requests can both reduce to user null, so different shares or anonymous clients requesting the same URL and query can receive a permission-filtered cached response without permission re-evaluation. This issue is fixed in version 12.0.0.

Affected products

• directus: before 12.0.0 — fixed in 12.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: directus 12.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/7ba4efb97525d3af33570537c76e44baea767f13
• https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/27707
• https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v12.0.0
• https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-c6w9-5g5j-jh2p

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