SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service nested type annotations
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-674.
Summary
SurrealDB before 3.1.0 fails to enforce recursion depth limits in the type/kind parser when processing nested type annotations. Authenticated attackers can send queries with deeply nested type annotations to exhaust server memory and crash the process.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA surrealdb (surrealdb) Fixed in 3.1.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
surrealdb 3.1.0
20 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 4 MEDIUM, 16 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-45344 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Session Hijacking via /rpc sessionsPriority MEDIUM 46
- TI-2026-45347 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service via JSON ParserPriority MEDIUM 44
- TI-2026-45334 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service via malformed RPC usePriority MEDIUM 44
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-63759
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-56pq-53x9-mxc4
References
More Surrealdb vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-45344 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Session Hijacking via /rpc sessions CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2024-38452 SurrealDB before 1.1.0 Denial of Service via HTTP Headers CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-45347 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service via JSON Parser CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-45334 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service via malformed RPC use CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2025-43508 SurrealDB before 2.2.2 SurrealQL Injection via export CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2026-45343 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Privilege Escalation via RPC Session Race Condition CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
Sources
- CVE-2026-63759 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-63759 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-56pq-53x9-mxc4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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