Directus up to 11.16.0 isLoginRedirectAllowed incomplete blacklist

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A vulnerability was found in Directus up to 11.16.0. It has been rated as critical. The affected element is the function isLoginRedirectAllowed. The manipulation leads to incomplete blacklist. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-35410. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Directus up to 11.16.0. This issue affects the function isLoginRedirectAllowed. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a incomplete blacklist vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-184. The product implements a protection mechanism that relies on a list of inputs (or properties of inputs) that are not allowed by policy or otherwise require other action to neutralize before additional processing takes place, but the list is incomplete, leading to resultant weaknesses. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.16.1, an open redirect vulnerability exists in the login redirection logic. The isLoginRedirectAllowed function fails to correctly identify certain malformed URLs as external, allowing attackers to bypass redirect allow-list validation and redirect users to arbitrary external domains upon successful authentication. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.16.1.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-35410 since 04/02/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. 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. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1562.006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 11.16.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• 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
• 11.15
• 11.16.0

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

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