CVE-2021-26594

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    CVE-2021-26594

    Published: 23 Feb 2021Last Modified: 9 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In Directus 8.x through 8.8.1, an attacker can switch to the administrator role (via the PATCH method) without any control by the back end. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

    References: https://github.com/sgranel/directusv8

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 7a0ddbd38e44f1f2c188dfdc6840e72be5126798
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v8.8.1
    v8.8.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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