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GHSA-jgf4-vwc3-r46v CVE-2024-39896

Directus Allows Single Sign-On User Enumeration

Medium npm
Severity
0.0 / 10
Medium · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.51%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 43.20% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Fix
10.13.0
Upgrade directus to this version or later

Description

Impact

When relying on SSO providers in combination with local authentication it can be possible to enumerate existing SSO users in the instance. This is possible because if an email address exists in Directus and belongs to a known SSO provider then it will throw a "helpful" error that the user belongs to another provider.

Reproduction

  1. Create a user using a SSO provider test@directus.io.
  2. Try to log-in using the regular login form (or the API)
  3. When using a valid email address
APP API
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  1. When using an invalid email address
APP API
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  1. Using this differing error it is possible to determine whether a specific email address is present in the Directus instance as an SSO user.

Workarounds

When only using SSO for authentication then you can work around this issue by disabling local login using the following environment variable AUTH_DISABLE_DEFAULT="true"

References

Implemented as feature in https://github.com/directus/directus/pull/13184 https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/v42/4-Web_Application_Security_Testing/03-Identity_Management_Testing/04-Testing_for_Account_Enumeration_and_Guessable_User_Account

Affected versions

npm

PackageVulnerableFixed in
directus
>= 9.11, < 10.13.0
10.13.0

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

directus npm → 10.13.0

npm
npm install directus@10.13.0
yarn
yarn add directus@10.13.0
pnpm
pnpm add directus@10.13.0

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
High
Integrity (vulnerable system)
None
Availability (vulnerable system)
None
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
None
Integrity (subsequent systems)
None
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

CVSS 3.1 7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Weakness

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-c6w9-5g5j-jh2p
Directus: Authorization-dependent response served from unsegmented cache key
High Also affects directus
GHSA-j5h6-vqc3-phqh
Directus: SSRF Protection Bypass via 0.0.0.0 in File Import
High Also affects directus
GHSA-38hg-ww64-rrwc
Directus: Authenticated Users Can Extract Concealed Fields via Aggregate Queries
High Also affects directus
GHSA-6q22-g298-grjh
Directus: Unauthenticated Denial of Service via GraphQL Alias Amplification of Expensive Health Check Resolver
High Also affects directus
GHSA-ph52-67fq-75wj
Directus: GraphQL Alias Amplification Denial of Service Due to Missing Query Cost/Complexity Limits
Medium Also affects directus
GHSA-mvv8-v4jj-g47j
Directus: Sensitive fields exposed in revision history
Medium Also affects directus
GHSA-qqmv-5p3g-px89
Directus: TUS Upload Authorization Bypass Allows Arbitrary File Overwrite
High Also affects directus
GHSA-wv3h-5fx7-966h
Directus: SSRF Protection Bypass via IPv4-Mapped IPv6 Addresses in File Import
High Also affects directus
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