Improper Authorization Affecting surrealdb package, versions <2.0.4
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- published9 Oct 2024
- disclosed8 Oct 2024
- creditShanthakumar, Xkonti
Introduced: 8 Oct 2024
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-285 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade surrealdb to version 2.0.4 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authorization due to the order in which permissions were processed. This allows an attacker without required permissions to view field values or record contents of the statements, filters, and computations.
Workaround
Users who are not able to upgrade to the fixed version are advised to restrict:
read access to fields at the table level
clients to
UPDATEorDELETErecords that they should not be able to view.