{"id":"CVE-2026-39943","aliases":["EUVD-2026-20952","GHSA-mvv8-v4jj-g47j"],"status":"published","title":"Directus exposes sensitive fields in revision history","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, Directus stores revision records (in directus_revisions) whenever items are created or updated. Due to the revision snapshot code not consistently calling the prepareDelta sanitization pipeline, sensitive fields (including user tokens, two-factor authentication secrets, external auth identifiers, auth data, stored credentials, and AI provider API keys) could be stored in plaintext within revision records. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.17.0.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00173,"percentile":0.0673,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-200","CWE-312"],"published":"2026-04-04T06:12:07Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:46Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","fixed_in":["11.17.0"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"11.17.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"directus","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"11.17.0"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"directus","product":"directus"},{"vendor":"monospace","product":"directus"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-mvv8-v4jj-g47j","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v11.17.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Product","Release Notes","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39943","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mvv8-v4jj-g47j"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/39xxx/CVE-2026-39943.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/directus/directus","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-39943","title":"Directus exposes sensitive fields in revision history","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, Directus stores revision records (in directus_revisions) whenever items are created or updated. Due to the revision snapshot code not consistently calling the prepareDelta sanitization pipeline, sensitive fields (including user tokens, two-factor authentication secrets, external auth identifiers, auth data, stored credentials, and AI provider API keys) could be stored in plaintext within revision records. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.17.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-09T16:12:09.963Z","modified":"2026-04-10T14:06:06.44Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-200","CWE-312"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:20:02.662847Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-20952","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, Directus stores revision records (in directus_revisions) whenever items are created or updated. Due to the revision snapshot code not consistently calling the prepareDelta sanitization pipeline, sensitive fields (including user tokens, two-factor authentication secrets, external auth identifiers, auth data, stored credentials, and AI provider API keys) could be stored in plaintext within revision records. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.17.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-09T16:12:09Z","modified":"2026-04-10T14:06:06Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:24:29.850635Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-mvv8-v4jj-g47j","title":"Directus: Sensitive fields exposed in revision history","description":"### Summary\n\nDirectus stores revision records (in `directus_revisions`) whenever items are created or updated. Due to the revision snapshot code not consistently calling the `prepareDelta` sanitization pipeline, sensitive fields (including user tokens, two-factor authentication secrets, external auth identifiers, auth data, stored credentials, and AI provider API keys) could be stored in plaintext within revision records.\n\n### Impact\nAny user or service account with read access to `directus_revisions` (or flow logs) could retrieve values for fields that are supposed to be concealed or encrypted at rest, including:\n- `token`, `tfa_secret`, `external_identifier`, `auth_data`, `credentials`\n- `ai_openai_api_key`, `ai_anthropic_api_key`, `ai_google_api_key`, `ai_openai_compatible_api_key`\n\nThis could lead to account takeover (via stolen tokens or 2FA secrets) or unauthorized use of third-party API keys stored against users.\n\n### Affected code paths\n\n1. **Item create/update revisions** The data (snapshot) field written to directus_revisions was not processed through prepareDelta, so concealed/encrypted fields were stored without redaction. Relational fields were also included, which should have been excluded.\n2. **Authentication service** When a user was auto-suspended after repeated failed login attempts, the revision record was created with the raw user object (including all sensitive fields) rather than the sanitized delta.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-04T06:12:07Z","modified":"2026-04-09T19:05:33Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-200","CWE-312"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:52.102227Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-39943","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, Directus stores revision records (in directus_revisions) whenever items are created or updated. Due to the revision snapshot code not consistently calling the prepareDelta sanitization pipeline, sensitive fields (including user tokens, two-factor authentication secrets, external auth identifiers, auth data, stored credentials, and AI provider API keys) could be stored in plaintext within revision records. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.17.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-09T17:16:29.96Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:42:48.317Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-200","CWE-312"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:13.902911Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-39943","title":"Directus exposes sensitive fields in revision history","description":"Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, Directus stores revision records (in directus_revisions) whenever items are created or updated. Due to the revision snapshot code not consistently calling the prepareDelta sanitization pipeline, sensitive fields (including user tokens, two-factor authentication secrets, external auth identifiers, auth data, stored credentials, and AI provider API keys) could be stored in plaintext within revision records. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.17.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-09T16:12:09.963Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:46.173157778Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-200","CWE-312"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:03.040464Z"},{"id":"GHSA-mvv8-v4jj-g47j","title":"Directus: Sensitive fields exposed in revision history","description":"### Summary\n\nDirectus stores revision records (in `directus_revisions`) whenever items are created or updated. Due to the revision snapshot code not consistently calling the `prepareDelta` sanitization pipeline, sensitive fields (including user tokens, two-factor authentication secrets, external auth identifiers, auth data, stored credentials, and AI provider API keys) could be stored in plaintext within revision records.\n\n### Impact\nAny user or service account with read access to `directus_revisions` (or flow logs) could retrieve values for fields that are supposed to be concealed or encrypted at rest, including:\n- `token`, `tfa_secret`, `external_identifier`, `auth_data`, `credentials`\n- `ai_openai_api_key`, `ai_anthropic_api_key`, `ai_google_api_key`, `ai_openai_compatible_api_key`\n\nThis could lead to account takeover (via stolen tokens or 2FA secrets) or unauthorized use of third-party API keys stored against users.\n\n### Affected code paths\n\n1. **Item create/update revisions** The data (snapshot) field written to directus_revisions was not processed through prepareDelta, so concealed/encrypted fields were stored without redaction. Relational fields were also included, which should have been excluded.\n2. **Authentication service** When a user was auto-suspended after repeated failed login attempts, the revision record was created with the raw user object (including all sensitive fields) rather than the sanitized delta.","status":"published","published":"2026-04-04T06:12:07Z","modified":"2026-04-09T19:19:00.341858Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-200","CWE-312"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:52.170928Z"}]}}