CVE-2026-63762CWE-476

SurrealDB before v2.6.1 Denial of Service via scripting

Medium · published July 20, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SurrealDB before v2.6.1 (and before v3.0.0-beta.3) contains a denial of service vulnerability in its embedded JavaScript scripting engine, which is enabled via the --allow-scripting capability (disabled by default). Any user able to execute arbitrary queries — including unauthenticated guests when --allow-guests is enabled — can use built-in string functions to construct a large string and pass it to the JavaScript runtime for compilation, triggering a null pointer dereference in the underlying QuickJS-NG engine. This causes the server process to terminate immediately without graceful shutdown, requiring a manual restart. The issue was fixed by updating the rquickjs dependency from v0.9.0 to v0.11.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00450 · 38.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-07-20T12:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 JUL 12:04Z
    SurrealDB before v2.6.1 Denial of Service via scripting
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