CVE-2024-39895: Monospace Directus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. A denial of service (DoS) attack by field duplication in GraphQL is a type of attack where an attacker exploits the flexibility of GraphQL to overwhelm a server by requesting the same field multiple times in a single query. This can cause the server to perform redundant computations and consume excessive resources, leading to a denial of service for legitimate users. Request to the endpoint /graphql are sent when visualizing graphs generated at a dashboard. By modifying the data sent and duplicating many times the fields a DoS attack is possible. This vulnerability is fixed in 10.12.0.

Affected products

• Monospace Directus: before 10.12.0 (fixed in 10.12.0)

Published 2024-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.