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TI-2024-39054 Aliases GHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x

SurrealDB has an Uncaught Exception Handling Parsing Errors on Empty Strings

Priority LOW 38CWE-248Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
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Privileges required
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User interaction
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Attack complexity
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Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-248.

Summary

The error rendering code from the parser would panic when handling failed parsing of queries where the error occurred when converting an empty string to a SurrealDB value. This would be the case when casting an empty string to a `record`, `duration` or `datetime`, as well as potentially when parsing an empty string to JSON or providing an empty string to the `type::field` and `type::fields` functions. ### Impact A client that is authorized to run queries in a SurrealDB server would be able to execute a malformed query which would fail to parse when converting an empty string and cause a panic in the error rendering code. This would crash the server, leading to denial of service. ### Patches - Version 2.0.4 and later are not affected by this issue. ### Workarounds Affected users who are unable to update may want to limit the ability of untrusted clients to run arbitrary SurrealQL queries in the affected versions of SurrealDB. To limit the impact of the denial of service, SurrealDB administrators may also want to ensure that the SurrealDB process is running so that it can be automatically re-started after a crash.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed surrealdb (crates.io): 2.0.4surrealdb-core (crates.io): 2.0.4

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—surrealdb (crates.io)2.0.0 to before 2.0.42.0.4Patch availableGHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x
—surrealdb-core (crates.io)2.0.0 to before 2.0.42.0.4Patch availableGHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x
  • surrealdb (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.0.4 Fixed in 2.0.4 Patch available GHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x
  • surrealdb-core (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.0.4 Fixed in 2.0.4 Patch available GHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x surrealdb (crates.io) Fixed in 2.0.4 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x surrealdb-core (crates.io) Fixed in 2.0.4 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x

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