🛡️ CVE-2024-58357 — surrealdb

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-248 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

SurrealDB has an Uncaught Exception in Function Generating Random Time

The rand::time() function in SurrealQL generates a random time from an optional range of two Unix timestamps. Due to the underlying use of timestamp_opt from the chrono crate, this function could potentially return None in some instances, leading to a panic when unwrap was called on its result in order to return a SurrealQL datetime type to the caller of the function.

Impact

A client that is authorized to run queries in a SurrealDB server would be able to make repeated (in the order of millions) calls to rand::time() in order to reliably trigger a panic. This would crash the server, leading to denial of service.

Patches

The function has been updated in to guarantee that some datetime is returned or that an error is otherwise gracefully handled.

  • Version 2.1.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

Workarounds

Affected users who are unable to update may want to limit the ability of untrusted clients to run the rand::time() function in the affected versions of SurrealDB using security capabilities. To limit the impact of the denial of service, SurrealDB administrators may also want to ensure that the SurrealDB process is running so that it can be automatically re-started after a crash.

References

  • #5126
  • [SurrealQL Documentation - Database Functions (rand::time)](https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealql/functions/database/rand#randtime)
  • [SurrealDB Documentation - Security Capabilities (Functions)](https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealdb/security/capabilities#functions)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-58357 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • surrealdb
  • surrealdb-core
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 22 November 2024 and last revised on 19 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-248
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-22
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
surrealdb — —
surrealdb-core — —
unknown — —

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