CVE-2026-61836
Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key
- Published
- Updated
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- GitHub_M
Description
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 12.0.0, when response caching is enabled, the cache-key derivation in api/src/utils/get-cache-key.ts includes version, path, query, and accountability.user but omits authorization context such as share, role, roles, admin, app, and policies. Directus share tokens and anonymous requests can both reduce to user null, so different shares or anonymous clients requesting the same URL and query can receive a permission-filtered cached response without permission re-evaluation. This issue is fixed in version 12.0.0.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.47% · top 59% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmdirectusGHSA-c6w9-5g5j-jh2p (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-c6w9-5g5j-jh2p (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/27707 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/7ba4efb97525d3af33570537c76e44baea767f13 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v12.0.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-c6w9-5g5j-jh2p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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