CVE-2025-24353 Directus privilege escalation vulnerability using Share feature
A privilege escalation flaw in Directus allows users to view restricted fields by specifying arbitrary roles in the share feature.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-24353?
CVE-2025-24353 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Monospace Directus, published on 23 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to version 11.2.0, when sharing an item, a typical user can specify an arbitrary role. It allows the user to use a higher-privileged role to see fields that otherwise the user should not be able to see. Instances that are impacted are those that use the share feature and have specific roles hierarchy and fields that are not visible for certain roles. Version 11.2.0 contains a patch the issue.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24353?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including @directus/app and directus. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
@directus/app npm | All versions | 13.3.1 |
@directus/app npm | All versions | 13.3.1 |
directus npm | All versions | 11.2.0 |
directus npm | All versions | 11.2.0 |
Products include Monospace Directus.
How do I fix CVE-2025-24353?
Upgrade @directus/app to 13.3.1 or later.
Is CVE-2025-24353 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-24353 exists.
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- CVE-2026-35408 Directus is Missing Cross-Origin Opener Policy
- 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-pmf4-v838-29hg.