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What is this endpoint?

directus/items/users

Directus Users API

What an attacker could do

Reaching the Directus users collection can expose account records and, with a valid token, permits enumerating or modifying users and escalating to admin if role permissions are misconfigured.

How to defend it

Enforce role-based permissions and field-level access control on the directus_users collection, require authentication on all item endpoints, and disable public read access in the data model settings.

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