CVE-2024-58361 SurrealDB before 2.0.4 Denial of Service via Parser Exception

What is CVE-2024-58361?

CVE-2024-58361 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Surrealdb Surrealdb, published on 18 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SurrealDB versions before 2.0.4 contain an uncaught exception handling vulnerability in the parser error rendering code when processing empty strings. Authorized clients can execute malformed queries with empty string conversions to record, duration, or datetime types that cause a panic in error rendering, crashing the server.

Weakness: CWE-248

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58361?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including surrealdb and surrealdb-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Surrealdb Surrealdb.

How do I fix CVE-2024-58361?

Upgrade surrealdb to 2.0.4 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-58361 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58361 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Surrealdb Surrealdb

• CVE-2025-71392 SurrealDB before 2.2.2 SurrealQL Injection via export Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-63756 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Privilege Escalation via RPC Session Race Condition Critical 9.2
• CVE-2026-63747 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service via malformed RPC use High 8.7
• CVE-2026-63757 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Session Hijacking via /rpc sessions High 8.7
• CVE-2026-63760 SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service via JSON Parser High 8.7

All Surrealdb Surrealdb vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m66w-p9jp-37jq, GHSA-qjrv-v6qp-x99x.