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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2025-53886
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2025-53886
Aliases
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
CWE-212 Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 4.5
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/22be460c76957708d67fdd52846a9ad1cbb083fb
https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.9.0
25354 Other https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/25354
GHSA-f24x-rm6g-3w5v https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-f24x-rm6g-3w5v
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-07-15T13:41:05Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-07-15T13:41:05Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/53xxx/CVE-2025-53886.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-53886

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]