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High · 7.1 CVE-2025-71397 EUVD-2025-210488GHSA-33m9-4q46-9q55GHSA-pxw4-94j3-v9pf

SurrealDB before 2.2.2 CPU Exhaustion via nested FOR loops

Published Jul 18, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

SurrealDB before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 allows authenticated users with OWNER or EDITOR permissions (at the root, namespace, or database level) to define custom database functions via DEFINE FUNCTION using nested FOR loops. Although a single loop's iteration count is constrained, nesting multiple loops (e.g., each with 1,000,000 iterations) is not, so an attacker can execute a function that consumes all server CPU time. Configured timeouts do not stop the execution, rendering the server unresponsive to other queries and connections until it is manually restarted.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
surrealdb surrealdb 2.2.0 – < 2.2.2, 2.1.0 – < 2.1.5, < 2.0.5 2.2.2

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io surrealdb >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.2 2.2.2 GHSA-pxw4-94j3-v9pf
crates.io surrealdb >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.5 2.1.5 GHSA-pxw4-94j3-v9pf
crates.io surrealdb < 2.0.5 2.0.5 GHSA-pxw4-94j3-v9pf

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