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Security checkMarch 27, 2025

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

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Description

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

Recommendation

Update the @directus/storage-driver-s3 package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): >= 9.22.0, < 12.0.1
  • Patched version(s): 12.0.1

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