Directus up to 11.14.x verifySessionJWT operation after expiration

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Directus up to 11.14.x. This vulnerability affects the function verifySessionJWT. This manipulation causes operation after expiration. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-30351. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Directus up to 11.14.x. Affected by this vulnerability is the function verifySessionJWT. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a operation after expiration vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-672. The product uses, accesses, or otherwise operates on a resource after that resource has been expired, released, or revoked. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 10.10.0 and prior to version 11.5.0, a suspended user can use the token generated in session auth mode to access the API despite their status. This happens because there is a check missing in `verifySessionJWT` to verify that a user is actually still active and allowed to access the API. One can extract the session token obtained by, e.g. login in to the app while still active and then, after the user has been suspended continue to use that token until it expires. Version 11.5.0 patches the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-30351 since 03/21/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 11.15.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch ef179931c55b50c110feca8404901d5633940771 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-8232). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Name

• Directus

Version

• 11.0
• 11.1
• 11.2
• 11.3
• 11.4
• 11.5
• 11.6
• 11.7
• 11.8
• 11.9
• 11.10
• 11.11
• 11.12
• 11.13
• 11.14

License

• open-source

Website

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

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