# CVE-2024-27295: Directus MySQL accent insensitive email matching

> Attackers can hijack accounts by exploiting accent-insensitive email matching in password reset flows, allowing reset emails to be sent to similar addresses.

- **Severity:** High 8.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 1 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qw9g-7549-7wg5

## What is CVE-2024-27295?

CVE-2024-27295 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Monospace Directus, published on 1 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. The password reset mechanism of the Directus backend allows attackers to receive a password reset email of a victim user, specifically having it arrive at a similar email address as the victim with a one or more characters changed to use accents. This is due to the fact that by default MySQL/MariaDB are configured for accent-insensitive and case-insensitive comparisons. This vulnerability is fixed in version 10.8.3.

Weakness: CWE-706 (Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-27295?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including directus. It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `directus` | npm | All versions | 10.8.3 |
| `directus` | npm | All versions | 10.8.3 |

Products: Monospace Directus.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-27295?

Upgrade directus to 10.8.3 or later.

## Is CVE-2024-27295 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27295 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Monospace Directus

- [CVE-2022-26969](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-26969/): Insecure default value for CORS configuration (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-55746](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55746/): Directus allows unauthenticated file upload and file modification due to lacking input sanitization (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2026-35408](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35408/): Directus is Missing Cross-Origin Opener Policy (high 8.7)
- [CVE-2026-61836](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-61836/): Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2025-30353](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30353/): Directus's webhook trigger flows can leak sensitive data (high 8.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-27295 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-27295 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Monospace Directus, published on 1 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27295 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- directus (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 10.8.3
- directus (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 10.8.3

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27295/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27295/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27295
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27295
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-27295

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27295/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.