CVE-2025-11060 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.7) CWE-863 vulnerability in SurrealDB. A fix is available for SurrealDB — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Surrealdb: surrealdb is vulnerable to unauthorized data exposure via live query subscriptions
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-11060.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
LIVE SELECT statements are used to capture changes to data within a table in real time. Documents included in WHERE conditions and DELETE notifications were not properly reduced to respect the querying user's security context. Instead the leaked documents reflect the context of the user triggering the notification.
This allows a record or guest user with permissions to run live query subscriptions on a table to observe unauthorised records within the same table, when another user is altering or deleting these records, bypassing access controls.
Impact
A record or guest user with permissions to run live query subscriptions on a table is able to observe unauthorised records within the same table, with unauthorised records returned when deleted, or when records matching the WHERE conditions are created, updated, or deleted, by another user. This impacts confidentiality, limited to the table the attacker has access to, and with the data disclosed dependent of the actions taken by other users.
Patches
A patch has been created for the following versions:
- Versions 2.1.9, 2.2.8 and 2.3.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- The first release following v3.0.0-alpha.7 will be patched.
Workarounds
Assess the impact of users with permissions on table records effectively having full read access to the table, use separate tables if required, with impacts to functionality.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🦀crates.io | SurrealDB | ≥ 2.3.0&&< 2.3.8 | 2.3.8cargo update -p SurrealDB --precise 2.3.8 |
| 🦀crates.io | SurrealDB | ≥ 2.2.0&&< 2.2.8 | 2.2.8cargo update -p SurrealDB --precise 2.2.8 |
| 🦀crates.io | SurrealDB | all versions | 2.1.9cargo update -p SurrealDB --precise 2.1.9 |
| 🦀crates.io | SurrealDB | ≥ 3.0.0-alpha.0&&< 3.0.0-alpha.8 | 3.0.0-alpha.8cargo update -p SurrealDB --precise 3.0.0-alpha.8 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for SurrealDB, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update SurrealDB to 2.3.8 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-11060 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2025-11060 (CC BY 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-11060 in your dependencies?
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