GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-6r8p-hpg7-825g Uncontrolled Recursion in SurrealQL Parsing
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- surrealdb
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
- Reviewed
- 2024-01-18
Affected packages
• crates.io surrealdb: < 1.1.0 → fixed in 1.1.0
Description
In some specific instances, the SurrealQL parser will attempt to recursively parse nested statements or idioms (i.e. nested `IF` and `RELATE` statements, nested basic idioms and nested access to attributes) without checking if the depth limit established by default or in the `SURREAL_MAX_COMPUTATION_DEPTH` environment variable is exceeded. This can lead to the stack overflowing when the nesting surpasses certain levels of depth.
Impact
An attacker that is authorized to run queries on a SurrealDB server may be able to run a query using the affected statements and idioms with very deep nesting in order to crash the server, leading to denial of service.
Patches
• Version 1.1.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
Workarounds
Concerned users unable to update may want to limit the ability of untrusted users 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.
References
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=62410
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=62652
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=63797
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64445
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64731
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=65277
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/security/advisories/GHSA-6r8p-hpg7-825g web
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/pull/3232 web
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/commit/f838da248e3854e4250e5187a3a67507cb7efaaa web
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=62410 web
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=62652 web
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=63797 web
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64445 web
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64731 web
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=65277 web
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb package