CriticalCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-126539 (CVSS 9.2)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 11, 2026Risk 50/100

Directus before 12.1.0 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to skip permission checks by sending a failed auth message on public-mode WebSocket connections. Attackers can send an invalid token so handleAuthRequest sets accountability to null, then read, create, update or delete records in any user-defined collection.

Technical details

CVSS

9.2

AV:NetworkAC:HighPR:NoneUI:None

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