Root takeover via unescaped export identifiers
Published Jul 18, 2026 · Updated Jul 18, 2026
SurrealQL injection in SurrealDB before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 allows remote authenticated users to gain root access. The export command writes attacker-controlled table and field names into SurrealQL backups without escaping metacharacters, so import parses them as statements. Exploitation requires an OWNER or EDITOR System User to plant a name and a higher-privileged user to export and import it; applications permitting custom schema names expose the same second-order injection.
Summary
What happened
SurrealQL injection in SurrealDB before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 allows remote authenticated users to gain root access. The export command writes attacker-controlled table and field names into SurrealQL backups without escaping metacharacters, so import parses them as statements. Exploitation requires an OWNER or EDITOR System User to plant a name and a higher-privileged user to export and import it; applications permitting custom schema names expose the same second-order injection.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-71392
- Published
- Jul 18, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 18, 2026
- Vendor
- SurrealDB
- Product
- SurrealDB
- Classifications
- CWE-77, T1204.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 18, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 18, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2.0.5
- Affected versionversion=0 <2.1.5
- Affected versionversion=0 <2.2.2
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