mediumCVSS 6.5Vulnerability

GHSA-vjjx-rfw4-rmfc

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.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-vjjx-rfw4-rmfc
severity
medium
summary
SurrealDB: Graph traversal bypasses table SELECT permissions
cvss_score
6.5
cve_id
GHSA-vjjx-rfw4-rmfc
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-07-01T20:10:34Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vjjx-rfw4-rmfc
ghsa_updated
2026-07-01T20:10:35Z

Related Entities (5)

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

[Weakness]Incorrect Authorization
[Weakness]Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]rust/surrealdb

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]rust/surrealdb

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