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URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CVE-2024-28239

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. The authentication API has a "redirect" parameter that can be exploited as an open redirect vulnerability as the user tries to log in via the API URL. There's a redirect that is done after successful login via the Auth API GET request to "directus/auth/login/google?redirect=http://malicious-fishing-site.com". While credentials don't seem to be passed to the attacker site, the user can be phished into clicking a legitimate directus site and be taken to a malicious site made to look like a an error message "Your password needs to be updated" to phish out the current password. Users who login via OAuth2 into Directus may be at risk. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue affects directus versions prior to 10.10.0.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-601 - Open Redirect

An open redirect attack employs a URL parameter, HTML refresh tags, or a DOM based location change to exploit the trust of a vulnerable domain to direct the users to a malicious website. The attack could lead to higher severity vulnerabilities such as unauthorized access control, account takeover, XSS, and more.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published