CVE-2025-53889 — Improper Authentication in Directus
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 15
Description
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 9.12.0 and prior to version 11.9.0, Directus Flows with a manual trigger are not validating whether the user triggering the Flow has permissions to the items provided as payload to the Flow. Depending on what the Flow is set up to do this can lead to the Flow executing potential tasks on the attacker's behalf without authenticating. Bad actors could execute the manual trigger Flows without authen…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 2.5