Directus up to 11.12.x REST API /items/ information exposure

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A vulnerability has been found in Directus up to 11.12.x and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /items/ of the component REST API. The manipulation leads to information exposure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-64749. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Directus up to 11.12.x and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the file /items/ of the component REST API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information exposure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-203. The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. An observable difference in error messaging was found in the Directus REST API in versions of Directus prior to version 11.13.0. The `/items/{collection}` API returns different error messages for two cases: when a user tries to access an existing collection which they are not authorized to access, and when user tries to access a non-existing collection. The two differing error messages leak the existence of collections to users which are not authorized to access these collections. Version 11.13.0 fixes the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-64749 since 11/10/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 11.13.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f99c9b89071f9d136cc9b0d0c182f2d24542bc31 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-2025-177199). 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

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• open-source

Website

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

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