Vulnerability · Published Mar 26, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-30225Directus's S3 assets become unavailable after a burst of malformed transformations

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in directus from directus. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 61.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. The `@directus/storage-driver-s3` package starting in version 9.22.0 and prior to version 12.0.1, corresponding to Directus starting in version 9.22.0 and prior to 11.5.0, is vulnerable to asset unavailability after a burst of malformed transformations. When making many malformed transformation requests at once, at some point, all assets are served as 403. This causes denial of assets for all policies of Directus, including Admin and Public. Version 12.0.1 of the `@directus/storage-driver-s3` package, corresponding to version 11.5.0 of Directus, fixes the issue.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
npm@directus/storage-driver-s312.0.1GHSA-j8xj-7jff-46mx
npmdirectus11.5.0GHSA-j8xj-7jff-46mx

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
directus directus >= 9.22.0, < 11.5.0

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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