VulnerabilityAnalyzed

CVE-2025-71392

An authenticated System User with OWNER or EDITOR roles can create tables or fields with malicious names containing SurrealQL.

CRITICAL 9.4EPSS 0.24%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.24%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

SurrealDB before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 fails to properly escape table and field names in the command-line export command. An authenticated System User with OWNER or EDITOR roles can create tables or fields with malicious names containing SurrealQL. When a higher-privileged user subsequently imports the exported backup, the injected SurrealQL executes, enabling privilege escalation and root-level takeover of the SurrealDB instance. Applications that let users define custom tables or fields are also exposed to a universal second-order SurrealQL injection even when query parameters are sanitized.

CVSS 4.0: 9.4 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.24% probability · 15th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-77
Affected: surrealdb/surrealdb
Source: disclosure@vulncheck.com

References

https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/security/advisories/GHSA-ccj3-5p93-8p42Vendor Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/surrealdb-before-surrealql-injection-via-exportThird Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.