AIKIDO-2026-942600
directus is vulnerable to Path Traversal
68
CVE Score
Medium
Path Traversal
TL;DR
The Mail Service resolves email template names by joining the caller-supplied template value onto the templates directory with path.resolve, which collapses traversal segments and never confirms the result stays inside the templates root. A user who can configure a Flow Send Email operation can supply a relative name that escapes the root, causing the Liquid engine to read and render an arbitrary host file into the email body. This discloses environment files, credentials, and other host configuration, and weakens tenant isolation in shared-hosting deployments. The fix restricts resolved template paths to the configured templates directories.
How do I fix this?
Upgrade the directus library to the patch version.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and you use Flows with a Send Email operation.
Package
Versions
0.0.1 - 12.0.2
Fixed in 12.1.0Background info
directus is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions 0.0.1 - 12.0.2.
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