# RUSTSEC-2026-0454: Data race and double free via unsound \`Send\`/\`Sync\` in \`reblessive\`

- Also known as: GHSA-M9QR-4RCQ-3JHC
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.0.0
- Published: 2026-11-03 · Updated: 2026-11-06

RUSTSEC-2026-0454 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It affects surrealdb-core; fixed in 4.0.0.

## Summary

Memory-safety flaws (data races and double frees) in the reblessive Rust library, which SurrealDB's query executor uses to run SurrealQL statements, can be triggered from safe Rust code. The library wrongly marks its types as safe to share and send across threads.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- surrealdb-core (crates.io): fixed in 4.0.0

## Description

`dbs::Executor` drives every SurrealQL statement through `reblessive::tree::TreeStack`. In `reblessive 0.4.3` the runtime types unconditionally assert `Send`/`Sync` (`unsafe impl Send/Sync for Stack`, `TreeStack` and `Runner`), while the public entry points accept any future without a `Send` bound and store it type-erased in a bump allocator. Two safe-code consequences follow. First, `Runner::step_async`/`finish_async` return driver futures tied to the stack borrow rather than to `&mut self`, so a driver future can be duplicated; because `Stack` is `Sync` those futures are `Send`, and polling two copies on different threads runs `drive_top_task` concurrently — racy `Cell`/`UnsafeCell` access, double `pop_task()`/`pop_dealloc()` (double drop / double free) and a non-atomic `Option::take`. Second, `TreeStack: Send` lets safe code move a driver whose type-erased future captures `!Send` state (`Rc`, `RefCell`) to another thread while the creating thread keeps an alias of that state. No `unsafe` is needed at the call site. `surrealdb-core`'s own query futures are `Send` only because of the unsound `unsafe impl Send for TreeStack`, while the captured `&mut tree::Stk` is deliberately `!Send`. The unsound dependency was removed in 4.0.0 and the parser now uses plain recursion (commit `75407c4bcc`).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on surrealdb-core, upgrade to a fixed version (4.0.0) per the references below.
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## FAQ

### Is RUSTSEC-2026-0454 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/RUSTSEC-2026-0454

### Which versions are affected by RUSTSEC-2026-0454?

surrealdb-core (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0 before 4.0.0.

Source: https://cve.now/RUSTSEC-2026-0454

### How do I fix RUSTSEC-2026-0454?

Upgrade to a fixed version: 4.0.0.

Source: https://cve.now/RUSTSEC-2026-0454

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## References

- https://crates.io/crates/surrealdb-core
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0454.html
- https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/commit/75407c4bccc6d6679d7d6e7a18af0065afdded7d

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