EUVD-2026-45934
GHSA-5w8c-cvwv-f5px
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jul 20, 2026
Confused-deputy privilege escalation in SurrealDB before 2.5.0 and before 3.0.0-beta.3 lets a low-privileged user (e.g. the database editor role) plant futures, functions, or closures inside record fields that later execute in the security context of whoever reads or writes the record. When a root owner or namespace admin touches the poisoned field, the attacker's logic runs with elevated permissions, enabling creation of a root owner and full server takeover. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, no KEV listing, and no EPSS score supplied, so risk assessment rests on the vendor advisory and CVSS 4.0 signals rather than observed exploitation.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS VectorVendor: vulncheck
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2DescriptionCVE.org
SurrealDB before 2.5.0 and before 3.0.0-beta.3 contains a confused deputy privilege escalation vulnerability. Unprivileged users (e.g., those with the database editor role) can create or modify fields containing futures, functions, or closures. Because these are executed in the context of the invoking/querying user rather than their creator, an attacker can plant malicious logic that executes with a higher-privileged user's permissions when that user reads or writes the affected record. This can lead to full privilege escalation, including creation of a root owner and server takeover.
Executive ViewAI
SurrealDB contains a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-63763, CVSS 7.5) that allows any authenticated database editor user to escalate to root owner and achieve complete server takeover. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the potential impact is total compromise of the SurrealDB system. Organizations relying on SurrealDB face critical risk if any database editor account is compromised or if any insider with that role acts maliciously.
Within 24 hours: Audit all SurrealDB instances and immediately restrict database editor role to only absolutely essential users with formal justification; enable comprehensive access logging and review existing logs for suspicious activity from low-privileged accounts. Within 7 days: Implement network segmentation to restrict SurrealDB access to internal trusted networks only; require multi-factor authentication on all database administrative accounts; establish daily monitoring of vendor advisories for patch availability. Within 30 days: Monitor for SurrealDB vendor patch release and maintain change management readiness to upgrade immediately upon availability; evaluate alternative database solutions if your risk profile requires taking SurrealDB offline; test and execute upgrade plan within 48 hours of patch release with full validation in staging first.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Immediate mitigations: Restrict database editor role access to only absolutely essential personnel and require formal business justification; implement network segmentation to limit SurrealDB accessibility; require multi-factor authentication for administrative access; enable and actively monitor all database audit logs for privilege escalation attempts; consider air-gapping vulnerable SurrealDB instances from untrusted applications or users; prepare data migration plan to alternative database solutions if risk tolerance requires operational restriction until patch availability.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.
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Denial of service in SurrealDB before 3.1.0 lets an unauthenticated remote attacker crash the database with a single Web
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Session hijacking in SurrealDB before 3.1.0 lets unauthenticated attackers enumerate attached session UUIDs through the
SurrealDB versions before 3.3.0 fail to validate a caller's authorization level when the SurrealQL USE statement switche
Cross-tenant data access in SurrealDB before 3.3.0 allows an authenticated namespace- or database-level SYSTEM user to b
Cross-tenant authorization bypass in SurrealDB before 3.2.0 lets any authenticated user reach custom API endpoints belon
Arbitrary file read in SurrealDB before 3.1.5 lets an authenticated database user holding the EDITOR or OWNER role discl
Denial of service in SurrealDB before 3.1.5 lets an authenticated user with query-execution privileges crash the entire
Denial of service in SurrealDB versions before 3.3.0 lets a query-capable authenticated user with embedded JavaScript sc
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