CVE-2025-71392

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.04 BB Relevance: 59/100
Published: 2026-07-18 Modified: 2026-10-29 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: Passive
AT: None
VC: High
VI: High
VA: High

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.

Affected Software (7)

VendorProductVersion
surrealdb surrealdb 2.2.0 < 2.2.2
surrealdb surrealdb 2.1.0 < 2.1.5
surrealdb surrealdb 0 < 2.0.5
surrealdb surrealdb < 2.0.5
surrealdb surrealdb 2.2.0 < 2.2.2
surrealdb surrealdb 2.1.0 < 2.1.5
surrealdb surrealdb 0 < 2.0.5

Bug Bounty Relevance

59 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

9.4 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.44%
Raw Score 0.004420
Percentile 38.4%
Date 2026-10-29

Intelligence Sources

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