CVE-2023-26492: Monospace Directus

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Directus is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) when importing a file from a remote web server (POST to `/files/import`). An attacker can bypass the security controls by performing a DNS rebinding attack and view sensitive data from internal servers or perform a local port scan. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to access highly sensitive internal server(s) and steal sensitive information. This issue was fixed in version 9.23.0.

Affected products

• Monospace Directus: before 9.23.0 (fixed in 9.23.0)

Published 2023-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.