CVE-2025-71396 SurrealDB before 2.2.2 Denial of Service via JavaScript Scripting

What is CVE-2025-71396?

CVE-2025-71396 is a low-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 before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not enforce a default execution-time limit on embedded JavaScript scripting functions when the scripting capability is explicitly enabled (via --allow-scripting or --allow-all). An authenticated attacker can submit long-running JavaScript functions to exhaust server resources and cause a denial of service. Scripting is disabled by default.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71396?

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

Products include Surrealdb Surrealdb.

How do I fix CVE-2025-71396?

Upgrade surrealdb to a fixed version for your release line: 2.0.5, 2.1.5 or 2.2.2.

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-2025-71396 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71396 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-3824-qmfq-2qv7.