Medium
Security advisory
In Directus 8.x through 8.8.1, an attacker can learn sensitive information such as the version of the CMS, the PHP version used by the site, and the name of the DBMS, simply by view the result of the api-aa, called automatically upon a connection. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-26595
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Directus 8.x through 8.8.1, an attacker can learn sensitive information such as the version of the CMS, the PHP version used by the site, and the name of the DBMS, simply by view the result of the api-aa, called automatically upon a connection. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
osv:CVE-2021-26595
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:01.171523581Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/sgranel/directusv8"
],
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439727,
"published_at": "2021-02-23T19:15:13.853+00:00"
}