{"id":"CVE-2024-54151","aliases":["EUVD-2024-3448","GHSA-849r-qrwj-8rv4"],"status":"published","title":"Directus allows unauthenticated access to WebSocket events and operations","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 11.0.0 and prior to version 11.3.0, when setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to \"public\", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges. This impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions. Version 11.3.0 fixes the issue.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00695,"percentile":0.53263,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-200"],"published":"2024-12-09T20:40:54Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:38Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","fixed_in":["11.3.0"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]},{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"@directus/api","fixed_in":["23.2.0"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"11.0.0"},{"fixed":"11.3.0"}]}]},{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@directus/api","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"22.2.0"},{"fixed":"23.2.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"11.0.0"},{"fixed":"11.3.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@directus/api","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"22.2.0"},{"fixed":"23.2.0"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"directus","product":"directus"},{"vendor":"monospace","product":"directus"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-849r-qrwj-8rv4","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","exploit","Exploit","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/ce0397d16cf767b5293cd57f626c5349b5732a21","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-54151","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-849r-qrwj-8rv4"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/54xxx/CVE-2024-54151.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2024-54151","title":"Directus allows unauthenticated access to WebSocket events and operations","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 11.0.0 and prior to version 11.3.0, when setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to \"public\", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges. This impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions. Version 11.3.0 fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-12-09T20:57:28.365Z","modified":"2024-12-10T17:09:06.417Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-200"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:33:59.177173Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2024-3448","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 11.0.0 and prior to version 11.3.0, when setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to \"public\", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges. This impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions. Version 11.3.0 fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-12-09T20:57:28Z","modified":"2024-12-10T17:09:06Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T00:04:37.743244Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-849r-qrwj-8rv4","title":"Directus allows unauthenticated access to WebSocket events and operations","description":"### Summary\nWhen setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to \"public\", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges.\n\n### Details\nAccountability for unauthenticated WebSocket requests is set to null, which used to be \"public permissions\" until the Permissions Policy update which now defaults that to system/admin level access. So instead of null we need to make use of `createDefaultAccountability()` to ensure public permissions are used for unauthenticated users.\n\n### PoC\n1. Start directus with\n```bash\nWEBSOCKETS_ENABLED=true\nWEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH=public\nWEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH=public\n```\n\n2. Subscribe using GQL or REST or do any CRUD operation on a user created collection (system tables are not reachable with crud)\n```gql\nsubscription {\n    directus_users_mutated {\n        key\n        event\n        data {\n            id\n            email\n            first_name\n            last_name\n            password\n        }\n    }\n}\n```\nor\n```json\n{\n   \"type\": \"items\",\n   \"action\": \"read\",\n   \"collection\": \"your_collection_name\"\n}\n```\n3a. Open up the data studio as any user. Observe how the subscriber gets notified on each page navigation (because the users `last_page` gets updated, the `password` fields is properly redacted here)\n\n3b. Observe receiving all available items from the `your_collection_name` collection.\n\n### Impact\n\nThis impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions.\n\n","status":"published","published":"2024-12-09T20:40:54Z","modified":"2024-12-09T21:54:15Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-200"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:38:24.542211Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2024-54151","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 11.0.0 and prior to version 11.3.0, when setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to \"public\", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges. This impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions. Version 11.3.0 fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-12-09T21:15:08.753Z","modified":"2026-06-17T08:09:51.933Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-200"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:10:39.434419Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2024-54151","title":"Directus allows unauthenticated access to WebSocket events and operations","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 11.0.0 and prior to version 11.3.0, when setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to \"public\", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges. This impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions. Version 11.3.0 fixes the issue.","status":"published","published":"2024-12-09T20:57:28.365Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:38.439327448Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-200"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:44.451316Z"},{"id":"GHSA-849r-qrwj-8rv4","title":"Directus allows unauthenticated access to WebSocket events and operations","description":"### Summary\nWhen setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to \"public\", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges.\n\n### Details\nAccountability for unauthenticated WebSocket requests is set to null, which used to be \"public permissions\" until the Permissions Policy update which now defaults that to system/admin level access. So instead of null we need to make use of `createDefaultAccountability()` to ensure public permissions are used for unauthenticated users.\n\n### PoC\n1. Start directus with\n```bash\nWEBSOCKETS_ENABLED=true\nWEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH=public\nWEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH=public\n```\n\n2. Subscribe using GQL or REST or do any CRUD operation on a user created collection (system tables are not reachable with crud)\n```gql\nsubscription {\n    directus_users_mutated {\n        key\n        event\n        data {\n            id\n            email\n            first_name\n            last_name\n            password\n        }\n    }\n}\n```\nor\n```json\n{\n   \"type\": \"items\",\n   \"action\": \"read\",\n   \"collection\": \"your_collection_name\"\n}\n```\n3a. Open up the data studio as any user. Observe how the subscriber gets notified on each page navigation (because the users `last_page` gets updated, the `password` fields is properly redacted here)\n\n3b. Observe receiving all available items from the `your_collection_name` collection.\n\n### Impact\n\nThis impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions.\n\n","status":"published","published":"2024-12-09T20:40:54Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:21.359864713Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-200"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:41.732368Z"}]}}