Incorrect Authorization Affecting surrealdb package, versions <3.1.0-beta.3
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- published2 Jul 2026
- disclosed1 Jul 2026
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Introduced: 1 Jul 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-863 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade surrealdb to version 3.1.0-beta.3 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the UPDATE ... PATCH process. An attacker can access unauthorized field values by issuing a JSON Patch operation with an empty from parameter, causing protected fields to be duplicated into a new field and bypassing field-level access controls.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by restricting UPDATE ... PATCH operations to users who already have SELECT permission on every field of the target record, or by switching to explicit SET or MERGE clauses, which do not accept JSON Patch operations.