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CVE-2026-63733: SurrealDB: Writes in a PERMISSIONS clause bypass table permissions

September 4, 2026

A PERMISSIONS ... WHERE clause is evaluated with permission enforcement disabled, so it can’t recurse into its own checks. But the clause could also contain data-modifying statements, and these ran with enforcement still off — so evaluating a permission check could write to tables the caller cannot write.

For example:

DEFINE TABLE post PERMISSIONS FOR update
WHERE (CREATE log SET at = time::now()) OR true;

Any user allowed to update a post now also creates a log record, even with no permission on log. The clause is evaluated once per matched record, so one statement can cause several writes.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-66r2-5gwj-gxm2
  • github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/commit/1e4c3d743e1591f14f340cb627e56d98b6bd7fd7
  • github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/commit/afea699dfb3c8f274ab36861f8a95f5e98d82f1b
  • github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/releases/tag/v3.2.0
  • github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/security/advisories/GHSA-66r2-5gwj-gxm2
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63733
  • www.vulncheck.com/advisories/surrealdb-before-permissions-bypass-via-permissions-clause

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Affected versions

All versions before 3.2.0

Fixed versions

  • 3.2.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.2.0 or above.

Impact 4.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Source file

cargo/surrealdb-core/CVE-2026-63733.yml

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