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Vulnerability details: VCID-dy98-51bk-p3fk
Vulnerability ID VCID-dy98-51bk-p3fk
Aliases CVE-2025-53889
GHSA-7cvf-pxgp-42fc
Summary Directus' insufficient permission checks can enable unauthenticated users to manually trigger Flows ### Summary Directus Flows with a manual trigger are not validating whether the user triggering the Flow has permissions to the items provided as payload to the Flow. Depending on what the Flow is set up to do this can lead to the Flow executing potential tasks on the attacker's behalf without authenticating. ### Impact Bad actors could execute the manual trigger Flows without authentication, or access rights to the said collection(s) or item(s). Users with manual trigger Flows configured are impacted as these endpoints do not currently validate if the user has read access to `directus_flows` or to the relevant collection/items. The manual trigger Flows should have tighter security requirements as compared to webhook Flows where users are expected to perform do their own checks. ### Workarounds Users have to implement permission checks for read access to Flows and read access to relevant collection/items.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/directus/directus
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/22be460c76957708d67fdd52846a9ad1cbb083fb
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-07-15T13:43:29Z/ Found at https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/22be460c76957708d67fdd52846a9ad1cbb083fb
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.9.0
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-07-15T13:43:29Z/ Found at https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.9.0
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-7cvf-pxgp-42fc
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-07-15T13:43:29Z/ Found at https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-7cvf-pxgp-42fc
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53889
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.47871
EPSS Score 0.00244
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T09:02:13.009623+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/07/GHSA-7cvf-pxgp-42fc/GHSA-7cvf-pxgp-42fc.json 38.6.0