GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-vjjx-rfw4-rmfc SurrealDB: Graph traversal bypasses table SELECT permissions
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-63746
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- surrealdb
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200, CWE-863
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-01
Affected packages
• crates.io surrealdb: < 3.1.0 → fixed in 3.1.0
Description
An authenticated record or scope user could read records on any table reachable through a graph edge or `REFERENCES TO` back-reference, regardless of that table's `PERMISSIONS FOR select` clause.
Traversing `SELECT * FROM source->edge->target` returned full documents from `target` even when `target` was defined as `PERMISSIONS FOR select NONE`. The same bypass extended through multi-hop chains, so any table reachable by a sequence of edges from a readable starting point was exposed.
The root cause: `GraphEdgeScan` and `ReferenceScan` fetched records straight from storage without routing them through `Document::pluck_select`, so the target table's permission expression was never consulted.
Impact
An authenticated record or scope user can read records on any table reachable through a chain of graph edges or back-references from a table they have `select` on, regardless of the target's `PERMISSIONS FOR select` clause. Confidentiality-only and bounded to the caller's current database — namespace and database isolation are unaffected.
Patches
A new per-batch permission cache (`exec::permission::CachedTableSelect`) resolves each target table's `SELECT` permission once and filters yielded values through `check_permission_for_value`, matching the regular `SELECT` code path.
• Versions 3.1.0 and later are not affected.
Workarounds
• Remove `select` permission on edge tables whose targets should be hidden.
• Use namespace or database isolation as the primary boundary where feasible.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-63746 SurrealDB versions before 3.1.0 fail to enforce table SELECT permissions when traversing graph edges or back-references. vulnerability