{"id":"GHSA-cph6-524f-3hgr","summary":"Directus Vulnerable to Information Leakage in Existing Collections","details":"### Summary:\n\nAn observable difference in error messaging was found in the Directus REST API. The `/items/{collection}` API returns different error messages for these two cases:\n1. A user tries to access an existing collection which they are not authorized to access.\n2. A user tries to access a non-existing collection.\n\nThe two differing error messages leak the existence of collections to users which are not authorized to access these collections.\n\n### Details:\n\nThe following response returns an error message, when requesting a collection the user is not authorized to access.\n\n```\nGET /items/no-access\n{\n  \"errors\": [\n    {\n      \"message\": \"You don't have permission to access collection \\\"no-access\\\" or it does not exist. Queried in root.\",\n      \"extensions\": {\n        \"reason\": \"You don't have permission to access collection \\\"no-access\\\" or it does not exist. Queried in root.\",\n        \"code\": \"FORBIDDEN\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}\n```\n\nThe following response returns a different error message when requesting a collection which does not exist.\n\n```\nGET /items/does-not-exist\n{\n  \"errors\": [\n    {\n      \"message\": \"You don't have permission to access this.\",\n      \"extensions\": {\n        \"code\": \"FORBIDDEN\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}\n```\n\n### Impact:\n\nThe difference in errors between non-existent collections and collections blocked by permissions leak the existence of a collection to a user which is not authorized to access this object.\n\n### Credit:\n\nSebastian Krause - [Hackmanit GmbH](https://hackmanit.de)","aliases":["CVE-2025-64749"],"modified":"2025-11-15T03:15:40Z","published":"2025-11-13T23:07:31Z","database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-203","CWE-209"],"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2025-11-13T23:07:31Z","nvd_published_at":"2025-11-13T22:15:52Z"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-cph6-524f-3hgr"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64749"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/f99c9b89071f9d136cc9b0d0c182f2d24542bc31"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/directus/directus"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"directus","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/directus"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"11.13.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/11/GHSA-cph6-524f-3hgr/GHSA-cph6-524f-3hgr.json"}},{"package":{"name":"@directus/api","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/%40directus/api"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"32.0.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/11/GHSA-cph6-524f-3hgr/GHSA-cph6-524f-3hgr.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"}]}