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CVE-2026-119372
SQLite before 3.54.0 Use-After-Free in FTS3 fts3BestSnippet() via snippet()
Medium6.8EPSS 0.15%
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- Updated
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- VulnCheck
Description
SQLite before 3.54.0 built with FTS3/FTS4 and SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS contains a use-after-free vulnerability in fts3BestSnippet() caused by dangling cached position-list pointers. Attackers can run a full-text MATCH query combining OR and NEAR operators with snippet() to read freed heap memory and crash the process.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
References (8)
- https://sqlite.org/bugs/info/2026-08-17T09:18:24Z (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingexploit
- https://sqlite.org/src/info/e4635c4153 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/a87bd2471a9c0606e78d3c3678bcd9cecaa0e731 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/version-3.53.4/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c#L561 (opens in a new tab)technical-description
- https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_54_0.html (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/sqlite-fts3-snippet (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite (opens in a new tab)product
- VulnCheck Advisory: SQLite before 3.54.0 Use-After-Free in FTS3 fts3BestSnippet() via snippet() (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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