CVE-2024-45596 Directus's session is cached for OpenID and OAuth2 if `redirect` is not used
Unauthenticated users can access previous user credentials via cached OpenID/OAuth2 responses, potentially leading to account takeover.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-45596?
CVE-2024-45596 is a high-severity vulnerability in Monospace Directus, published on 10 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. An unauthenticated user can access credentials of last authenticated user via OpenID or OAuth2 where the authentication URL did not include redirect query string. This happens because on that endpoint for both OpenId and Oauth2 Directus is using the respond middleware, which by default will try to cache GET requests that met some conditions. Although, those conditions do not include this scenario, when an unauthenticated request returns user credentials. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.13.3 and 11.1.0.
Weakness: CWE-524
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45596?
8 open source packages ship an affected version, including @directus/api and directus. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
@directus/api npm | All versions | 21.0.1 |
@directus/api npm | All versions | 21.0.1 |
@directus/api npm | From 22.0.0 | 22.2.0 |
@directus/api npm | From 22.0.0 | 22.2.0 |
directus npm | All versions | 10.13.3 |
directus npm | All versions | 10.13.3 |
2 more packages
directus npm | From 11.0.0-rc.1 | 11.1.0 |
directus npm | From 11.0.0-rc.1 | 11.1.0 |
Products include Monospace Directus.
How do I fix CVE-2024-45596?
Upgrade @directus/api to a fixed version for your release line: 21.0.1 or 22.2.0.
Is CVE-2024-45596 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45596 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2026-61836 Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key
- CVE-2025-30353 Directus's webhook trigger flows can leak sensitive data
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cff8-x7jv-4fm8.