CVE-2024-58363 SurrealDB before 1.5.4 Authentication Bypass via Database Switch

What is CVE-2024-58363?

CVE-2024-58363 is a medium-severity authentication bypass 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 before 1.5.4 and 2.0.0-alpha.1 before 2.0.0-alpha.6 fails to properly validate authentication when a scope user switches databases using the USE clause or use method. Attackers with an authenticated session can impersonate an unrelated user in a different database if a user record with an identical identifier exists, allowing unauthorized actions if permissions rely solely on the $auth parameter.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58363?

6 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-2024-58363?

Upgrade surrealdb to a fixed version for your release line: 1.5.4 or 2.0.0-alpha.6.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2024-58363 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58363 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
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Also known as GHSA-gh9f-6xm2-c4j2.