🛡️ CVE-2025-53886 — directus

🟡 CVSS 4.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 9.0.0 and prior to version 11.9.0, when using Directus Flows with the WebHook trigger all incoming request details are logged including security sensitive data like access and refresh tokens in cookies. Malicious admins with access to the logs can hijack the user sessions within the token expiration time of them triggering the Flow. Version 11.9.0 fixes the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative 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 high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-53886 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53886 is recorded against 1 package.

  • directus

Timeline and source

Published on 15 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-07-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
directus — —

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