PT-2023-11539 · Unknown · Directus Api

Published 2023-04-04 · Updated 2023-04-07 · CVE-2020-19850

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Directus API version 2.2.0

Description A denial of service issue in the Directus API allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a large number of HTTP requests.

Recommendations For Directus API version 2.2.0, consider implementing rate limiting on HTTP requests to mitigate the risk of denial of service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-19850

GHSA-3GVP-54V2-2JRP

Affected Products

Directus Api

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/directus/api/issues/982 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-19850 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3gvp-54v2-2jrp · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-19850 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/directus/v8-archive · Note