🛡️ CVE-2024-28239 — directus

🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-601 OSV
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site in OAuth2/OpenID in directus

Summary

The authentication API has a redirect parameter that can be exploited as an open redirect vulnerability as the user tries to log in via the API URL https://docs.directus.io/reference/authentication.html#login-using-sso-providers /auth/login/google?redirect for example.

Details

There's a redirect that is done after successful login via the Auth API GET request to directus/auth/login/google?redirect=http://malicious-fishing-site.com, which I think is here: https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/api/src/auth/drivers/oauth2.ts#L394. While credentials don't seem to be passed to the attacker site, the user can be phished into clicking a legitimate directus site and be taken to a malicious site made to look like a an error message "Your password needs to be updated" to phish out the current password.

PoC

Turn on any auth provider in Directus instance. Form a link to directus-instance/auth/login/:provider_id?redirect=http://malicious-fishing-site.com, login and get taken to malicious-site. Tested on the ory OAuth2 integration.

Impact

Users who login via OAuth2 into Directus.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-28239 is classified as CWE-601: Open Redirect. A redirect target is taken from user input, so a trusted link can send the visitor to an attacker's site.

Affected software

CVE-2024-28239 is recorded against 1 package.

  • directus

Timeline and source

Published on 12 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
docs.directus.io (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-601
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-12
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
directus — —

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