CVE-2026-35408 HIGH

CVE-2026-35408: Directus is Missing Cross-Origin Opener Policy

Vendor Directus
Product directus
Weakness CWE-346 · Origin validation
Published April 6, 2026
Last update April 7, 2026

CVSS base score

8.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. Prior to 11.17.0, Directus's Single Sign-On (SSO) login pages lacked a Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy (COOP) HTTP response header. Without this header, a malicious cross-origin window that opens the Directus login page retains the ability to access and manipulate the window object of that page. An attacker can exploit this to intercept and redirect the OAuth authorization flow to an attacker-controlled OAuth client, causing the victim to unknowingly grant access to their authentication provider account (e.g. Google, Discord). This vulnerability is fixed in 11.17.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 6, 2026 CVE published
April 7, 2026 Record updated