# CVE-2024-27295: Directus MySQL accent insensitive email matching

- Also known as: GHSA-QW9G-7549-7WG5
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 10.8.3
- Published: 2024-03-01 · Updated: 2024-08-28

## Affected

- directus: fixed in 10.8.3
- directus (npm): fixed in 10.8.3

## Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. The password reset mechanism of the Directus backend allows attackers to receive a password reset email of a victim user, specifically having it arrive at a similar email address as the victim with a one or more characters changed to use accents. This is due to the fact that by default MySQL/MariaDB are configured for accent-insensitive and case-insensitive comparisons. This vulnerability is fixed in version 10.8.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on directus, upgrade to a fixed version (10.8.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-qw9g-7549-7wg5

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