CVE-2024-39895 Directus GraphQL Field Duplication Denial of Service (DoS)

2024-07-0816:47:44

CWE-400

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

directus

graphql

denial of service

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

Percentile

9.2%

JSON

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. A denial of service (DoS) attack by field duplication in GraphQL is a type of attack where an attacker exploits the flexibility of GraphQL to overwhelm a server by requesting the same field multiple times in a single query. This can cause the server to perform redundant computations and consume excessive resources, leading to a denial of service for legitimate users. Request to the endpoint /graphql are sent when visualizing graphs generated at a dashboard. By modifying the data sent and duplicating many times the fields a DoS attack is possible. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.12.0.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "vendor": "directus",
    "product": "directus",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 10.12.0",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]