Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Directus - CVE-2022-36031

 

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Directus - CVE-2022-36031

Published: August 25, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU66764
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36031
CWE-ID: CWE-755
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to unhandled exception on illegal filename_disk value. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Directus

How to mitigate CVE-2022-36031

Install updates from vendor's website.

Directus - update to 9.15.0

External References

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