GHSA-6g9v-7gq3-p2c6
SurrealDB: Authenticated callers can read fields hidden by field-level SELECT permissions via error messages
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
A record user with UPDATE access could read field values that field-level SELECT permissions hid from them. Arithmetic operators and `extend` embedded the raw operand into their error messages, and UPDATE permission checks evaluate against the unreduced document — so triggering such an error against a hidden field returned its value in the resulting error.
### Impact
A record user issues an UPDATE that performs an incompatible operation against a hidden field — e.g. `UPDATE person:me SET probe = email + 1` when `email` is a string — and reads the value from the returned error (`Tried to compute "[email protected]" + 1 …`). One field per operation, but the attacker can repeat against any field on any record they can UPDATE.
### Patches
A patch has been introduced that replaces the raw operand in every `try_*` operator and in `extend` with the operand's type name (`"string"`, `"int"`, `"array"`, etc.).
- Versions 3.1.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
### Workarounds
Affected users who are unable to update should not grant UPDATE permission on records whose field-level SELECT permissions are expected to hide values from the same caller.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/security/advisories/GHSA-6g9v-7gq3-p2c6
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63748
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/commit/0aaa332c79195e4c40275eb5224aed3d52f5cf90
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/surrealdb-before-information-disclosure-via-error-messages