CVE-2025-64748

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. A vulnerability in versions prior to 11.13.0 allows authenticated users to search concealed/sensitive fields when they have read permissions. While actual values remain masked (****), successful matches can be detected through returned records, enabling enumeration attacks on sensitive data. Version 11.13.0 fixes the issue.

Weakness

The code transmits data to another actor, but a portion of the data includes sensitive information that should not be accessible to that actor.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
• Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/12.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/217.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/612.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/613.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/618.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/619.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/621.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/622.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/623.html

References

• https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/7737d56e096f95edfbdf861a3c08999ad31ce204
• https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-8jpw-gpr4-8cmh