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Unhandled exception on illegal filename_disk value

Moderate
rijkvanzanten published GHSA-77qm-wvqq-fg79 Aug 19, 2022

Package

npm directus (npm)

Affected versions

< 9.15.0

Patched versions

9.15.0

Description

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

The Directus process can be aborted by having an authorized user update the filename_disk value to a folder and accessing that file through the /assets endpoint.

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

The vulnerability is patched and released in v9.15.0.

Workarounds

Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?

You can prevent this problem by making sure no (untrusted) non-admin users have permissions to update the filename_disk field on directus_files.

For more information

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Credits

This vulnerability was first discovered and reported by Witold Gorecki.

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2022-36031

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits