CVE-2025-71394 SurrealDB before 2.2.2 Local File Read via DEFINE ANALYZER

What is CVE-2025-71394?

CVE-2025-71394 is a low-severity path traversal 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 2.2.2 contain a local file read vulnerability in the DEFINE ANALYZER statement that allows authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the file system. Attackers with root, namespace, or database level privileges can point analyzers to arbitrary file paths and exfiltrate content from two-column tab-separated files.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71394?

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

Products include Surrealdb Surrealdb.

How do I fix CVE-2025-71394?

Upgrade surrealdb to a fixed version for your release line: 2.1.5 or 2.2.2.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-71394 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71394 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-2cvj-g5r5-jrrg, GHSA-627h-wprw-6cpg.