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CVE-2025-71392 high CVSS 8.0

Command Injection in surrealdb (CVE-2025-71392)

Summary

Command injection in surrealdb (CVE-2025-71392). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Exploitable via export. Mitigation: upgrade to 2.0.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

The SurrealDB command-line tool allows exporting databases through the export command. It was discovered that table or field names are not properly sanitized in exports, leading to a SurrealQL injection when the backup is reimported.

For the injection to occur, an authenticated System User with OWNER or EDITOR roles needs to create tables or fields with malicious names containing SurrealQL, subsequently exported using the export operation

The attacker could achieve a privilege escalation and root level access to the SurrealDB instance if a higher privileged user subsequently performs the import operation.

Furthermore, applications using SurrealDB that allow its users to define custom fields or tables are at risk of a universal second order SurrealQL injection, even if query parameters are properly sanitized.

This issue was discovered and patched during an code audit and penetration test of SurrealDB by cure53, the severity defined within cure53's preliminary finding is Critical, matched by our CVSS v4 assessment.

Impact

This attack can be used to perform privilege escalation and complete takeover (root access) of the SurrealDB instance, as well as being able to perform SurrealQL injection attacks against co-tenanted applications where SurrealDB is used as a shared backend for multiple applications.

Patches

A patch has been created that addresses the issue by fixing the bugs in the exporter which failed to escape some characters properly.

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-71392 has been found in surrealdb.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like export over the network to misuse the product.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 8.0/10.
What to do: upgrade surrealdb to 2.0.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "surrealdb CVE-2025-71392" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-71392 (surrealdb) — CWE-77 / CVSS v3 8.0
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable)
Attack surface: export / OWNER / EDITOR / import
Patched: 2.0.5 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (CWE-77) exists in surrealdb. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via export.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of surrealdb. Attack surface: export / OWNER / EDITOR / import.

🔥 Severity

Severity: High (CVSS 8.0/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 2.0.5.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'surrealdb' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposure identify 
    grep -r 'surrealdb' . | grep -v node_modules

    リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で surrealdb を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。

  2. 2
    Apply patch patch 
    Upgrade surrealdb to 2.0.5

    ステージング環境で 2.0.5 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。

  3. 3
    Post-deployment verification verify 
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

rust surrealdb
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.5"}]}]
crates.io surrealdb
[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.5"}]}]

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