PT-2026-57512 · Crates.Io · Surrealdb

Published

2026-07-01

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Updated

2026-07-01

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
An authenticated record or scope user could read records on any table reachable through a graph edge or REFERENCES TO back-reference, regardless of that table's PERMISSIONS FOR select clause.
Traversing SELECT * FROM source->edge->target returned full documents from target even when target was defined as PERMISSIONS FOR select NONE. The same bypass extended through multi-hop chains, so any table reachable by a sequence of edges from a readable starting point was exposed.
The root cause: GraphEdgeScan and ReferenceScan fetched records straight from storage without routing them through Document::pluck select, so the target table's permission expression was never consulted.

Impact

An authenticated record or scope user can read records on any table reachable through a chain of graph edges or back-references from a table they have select on, regardless of the target's PERMISSIONS FOR select clause. Confidentiality-only and bounded to the caller's current database — namespace and database isolation are unaffected.

Patches

A new per-batch permission cache (exec::permission::CachedTableSelect) resolves each target table's SELECT permission once and filters yielded values through check permission for value, matching the regular SELECT code path.
  • Versions 3.1.0 and later are not affected.

Workarounds

  • Remove select permission on edge tables whose targets should be hidden.
  • Use namespace or database isolation as the primary boundary where feasible.

Fix

Incorrect Authorization

Information Disclosure

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

GHSA-VJJX-RFW4-RMFC

Affected Products

Surrealdb