{"id":"CVE-2024-36128","aliases":["EUVD-2024-1938","GHSA-632p-p495-25m5"],"status":"published","title":"Directus is soft-locked by providing a string value to random string util","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 10.11.2, providing a non-numeric length value to the random string generation utility will create a memory issue breaking the capability to generate random strings platform wide. This creates a denial of service situation where logged in sessions can no longer be refreshed as sessions depend on the capability to generate a random session ID. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.11.2.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.0062,"percentile":0.50032,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-754"],"published":"2024-06-03T14:59:45Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:36Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","fixed_in":["10.11.2"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"10.11.1"},{"fixed":"10.11.2"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"10.11.2"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"directus","product":"directus"},{"vendor":"monospace","product":"directus"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-632p-p495-25m5","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Exploit","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/7d2a1392f43613094de700062aba168a9400dd3b","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36128","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-632p-p495-25m5"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/36xxx/CVE-2024-36128.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-36128","title":"Directus is soft-locked by providing a string value to random string util","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 10.11.2, providing a non-numeric length value to the random string generation utility will create a memory issue breaking the capability to generate random strings platform wide. This creates a denial of service situation where logged in sessions can no longer be refreshed as sessions depend on the capability to generate a random session ID. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.11.2.","status":"published","published":"2024-06-03T14:59:45.507Z","modified":"2024-08-02T03:30:13.147Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-754"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:34:14.985673Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2024-1938","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 10.11.2, providing a non-numeric length value to the random string generation utility will create a memory issue breaking the capability to generate random strings platform wide. This creates a denial of service situation where logged in sessions can no longer be refreshed as sessions depend on the capability to generate a random session ID. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.11.2.","status":"published","published":"2024-06-03T14:59:45Z","modified":"2024-08-02T03:30:13Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T03:50:20.360548Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-632p-p495-25m5","title":"Directus is soft-locked by providing a string value to random string util","description":"### Describe the Bug\n\nProviding a non-numeric length value to the random string generation utility will create a memory issue breaking the capability to generate random strings platform wide. This creates a denial of service situation where logged in sessions can no longer be refreshed as sessions depend on the capability to generate a random session ID.\n\n### To Reproduce\n\n1. Test if the endpoint is working and accessible, `GET http://localhost:8055/utils/random/string`\n2. Do a bad request `GET http://localhost:8055/utils/random/string?length=foo`\n3. After this all calls to `GET http://localhost:8055/utils/random/string` will return an empty string instead of a random string\n4. In this error situation you'll see authentication refreshes fail for the app and api.\n\n### Impact\n\nThis counts as an unauthenticated denial of service attack vector so this impacts all unpatched instances reachable over the internet.","status":"published","published":"2024-06-04T17:53:29Z","modified":"2024-06-04T17:53:30Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-754"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:37:53.025064Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2024-36128","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 10.11.2, providing a non-numeric length value to the random string generation utility will create a memory issue breaking the capability to generate random strings platform wide. This creates a denial of service situation where logged in sessions can no longer be refreshed as sessions depend on the capability to generate a random session ID. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.11.2.","status":"published","published":"2024-06-03T15:15:09.547Z","modified":"2026-06-17T07:36:09.5Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-754"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:10:03.465199Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2024-36128","title":"Directus is soft-locked by providing a string value to random string util","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 10.11.2, providing a non-numeric length value to the random string generation utility will create a memory issue breaking the capability to generate random strings platform wide. This creates a denial of service situation where logged in sessions can no longer be refreshed as sessions depend on the capability to generate a random session ID. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.11.2.","status":"published","published":"2024-06-03T14:59:45.507Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:36.872169741Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-754"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:40.704083Z"},{"id":"GHSA-632p-p495-25m5","title":"Directus is soft-locked by providing a string value to random string util","description":"### Describe the Bug\n\nProviding a non-numeric length value to the random string generation utility will create a memory issue breaking the capability to generate random strings platform wide. This creates a denial of service situation where logged in sessions can no longer be refreshed as sessions depend on the capability to generate a random session ID.\n\n### To Reproduce\n\n1. Test if the endpoint is working and accessible, `GET http://localhost:8055/utils/random/string`\n2. Do a bad request `GET http://localhost:8055/utils/random/string?length=foo`\n3. After this all calls to `GET http://localhost:8055/utils/random/string` will return an empty string instead of a random string\n4. In this error situation you'll see authentication refreshes fail for the app and api.\n\n### Impact\n\nThis counts as an unauthenticated denial of service attack vector so this impacts all unpatched instances reachable over the internet.","status":"published","published":"2024-06-04T17:53:29Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:14.883193936Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-754"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:38.911014Z"}]}}