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Directus vulnerable to extraction of password hashes through export querying

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 7, 2023 in directus/directus • Updated Mar 26, 2023

Package

npm directus (npm)

Affected versions

< 9.16.0

Patched versions

9.16.0

Description

Impact

Users with read access to the password field in directus_users can extract the argon2 password hashes by brute forcing the export functionality combined with a _starts_with filter. This allows the user to enumerate the password hashes.

Patches

The problem has been patched by preventing any hashed/concealed field to be filtered against with the _starts_with or other string operator.

Workarounds

Ensuring that no user has read access to the password field in directus_users is sufficient to prevent this vulnerability.

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References

@br41nslug br41nslug published to directus/directus Mar 7, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 7, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 8, 2023
Reviewed Mar 8, 2023
Last updated Mar 26, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

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

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.065%
(31st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-27481

GHSA ID

GHSA-m5q3-8wgf-x8xf

Source code

Credits

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