# CVE-2024-54151: Directus allows unauthenticated access to WebSocket events and operations

- Also known as: GHSA-849R-QRWJ-8RV4
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 11.3.0, 23.2.0
- Published: 2024-12-09 · Updated: 2024-12-10

## Affected

- directus: from 11.0.0, fixed in 11.3.0
- directus (npm): from 11.0.0, fixed in 11.3.0
- @directus/api (npm): from 22.2.0, fixed in 23.2.0

## Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Starting in version 11.0.0 and prior to version 11.3.0, when setting `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` to "public", an unauthenticated user is able to do any of the supported operations (CRUD, subscriptions) with full admin privileges. This impacts any Directus instance that has either `WEBSOCKETS_GRAPHQL_AUTH` or `WEBSOCKETS_REST_AUTH` set to `public` allowing unauthenticated users to subscribe for changes on any collection or do REST CRUD operations on user defined collections ignoring permissions. Version 11.3.0 fixes the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on directus, @directus/api, upgrade to a fixed version (11.3.0, 23.2.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-849r-qrwj-8rv4
- https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/ce0397d16cf767b5293cd57f626c5349b5732a21

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