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CVE-2021-26594 (GCVE-0-2021-26594)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-23 18:59 – Updated: 2024-08-03 20:26 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI
Summary
In Directus 8.x through 8.8.1, an attacker can switch to the administrator role (via the PATCH method) without any control by the back end. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/sgranel/directusv8 x_refsource_MISC
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