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title: "CVE-2025-55746: Directus allows unauthenticated file upload and file modification due to lacking input sanitization"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-55746/
description: "CVE-2025-55746 (directus (npm)): Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. From 10.8.0 to before 11.9.3, a…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-08-20
date_modified: 2025-08-20
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2025-55746"
kev: false
cvss: 9.3
epss: 0.014
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# CVE-2025-55746: Directus allows unauthenticated file upload and file modification due to lacking input sanitization

**Signal:** Critical and remotely reachable. No known exploitation yet, but it is network-reachable without credentials. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- No confirmed exploitation. It is not in CISA’s KEV catalog and CISA’s SSVC assessment records no known exploitation. That can change quickly after a public write-up; re-check if you are affected.
- EPSS 1.4% , percentile 72: FIRST’s model estimates a 1.4% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (moderate). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Remotely reachable with no login and no user interaction. If the vulnerable service is exposed to the internet, prioritize it.
- Only applies if your dependency tree includes directus (npm) >= 10.8.0, < 11.9.3, fixed in 11.9.3 ; @directus/api (npm) >= 14.1.0, < 28.0.2, fixed in 28.0.2 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. From 10.8.0 to before 11.9.3, a vulnerability exists in the file update mechanism which allows an unauthenticated actor to modify existing files with arbitrary contents (without changes being applied to the files' database-resident metadata) and / or upload new files, with arbitrary content and extensions, which won't show up in the Directus UI. This vulnerability is fixed in 11.9.3.

## Affected packages

- npm `directus` >= 10.8.0, < 11.9.3 → fixed: 11.9.3
- npm `@directus/api` >= 14.1.0, < 28.0.2 → fixed: 28.0.2

## Affected products (CVE record)

- directus directus: >= 10.8.0, < 11.9.3

## Severity

- GitHub_M CVSS 3.1: 9.3 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L`
- GitHub CVSS 3.1: 9.3 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none , automatable yes , technical impact partial .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 1.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 72.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-mv33-9f6j-pfmc](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mv33-9f6j-pfmc)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2025-55746](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-55746)
- [NVD entry CVE-2025-55746](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55746)
- [github.com](https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-mv33-9f6j-pfmc)
- [github.com](https://github.com/directus/directus/commit/d84dcc36f75fc5c858d43746b8f9c426c38d696b)

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