Directus up to 10.13.2 OpenId/Oauth2 cache containing sensitive information

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Directus up to 10.13.2. This affects an unknown part of the component OpenId/Oauth2. Executing a manipulation can lead to use of cache containing sensitive information. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-45596. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability has been found in Directus up to 10.13.2 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component OpenId/Oauth2. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use of cache containing sensitive information vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-524. The code uses a cache that contains sensitive information, but the cache can be read by an actor outside of the intended control sphere. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. An unauthenticated user can access credentials of last authenticated user via OpenID or OAuth2 where the authentication URL did not include redirect query string. This happens because on that endpoint for both OpenId and Oauth2 Directus is using the respond middleware, which by default will try to cache GET requests that met some conditions. Although, those conditions do not include this scenario, when an unauthenticated request returns user credentials. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.13.3 and 11.1.0.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-45596 since 09/02/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 10.13.3 or 11.1.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 4aace0bbe57232e38cd6a287ee475293e46dc91b is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Directus

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• 10.13.0
• 10.13.1
• 10.13.2

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/directus/directus/

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