GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-gggm-66rh-pp98 Incorrect Permission Checking for GraphQL Subscriptions

MEDIUM Published 2023-07-25 Modified 2026-01-16 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-38503
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
directus
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200, CWE-863
Reviewed
2023-07-25

Affected packages

• npm directus: >= 10.3.0, < 10.5.0 → fixed in 10.5.0

Description

Summary CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Access to information you should not have access to when the permissions rely on `$CURRENT_USER` for filtering. Details The permission filters (i.e. `user_created IS $CURRENT_USER`) are not properly checked when using GraphQL subscription resulting in unauthorized users getting event on their subscription which they should not be receiving according to the permissions. This can be any collection but out-of-the box the `directus_users` collection is configured with such a permissions filter allowing you to get updates for other users when changes happen. An example: ```graphql subscription { directus_users_mutated { event data { id last_access last_page } } } ``` Patches https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/19155 Workarounds Disable GraphQL Subscriptions References

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-38503 Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References