CVE-2025-71392: Surrealdb

High severity, CVSS 8.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Surrealdb Surrealdb: before 2.0.5 (fixed in 2.0.5); from 2.1.0, before 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.1.5); from 2.2.0, before 2.2.2 (fixed in 2.2.2)

Published 2026-07-18. Last modified 2026-09-29.