Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Directus - CVE-2025-30225
Published: March 26, 2025 / Updated: April 23, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU127113
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-30225
CWE-ID: CWE-772
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Directus
Affected software:
Directus
Directus
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to improper resource shutdown in asset transformation handling when processing malformed transformation requests. A remote attacker can send a burst of specially crafted transformation requests to cause a denial of service.
This issue affects S3-backed assets and can cause all assets to be served as HTTP 403 responses.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-30225
Install security update from vendor's website.