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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-15286 json

SQLite 3.20.1 has a NULL pointer dereference in tableColumnList in shell.c because it fails to consider certain cases where `sqlite3_step(p…

published 2017-10-12 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-6743

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SQLite 3.20.1 has a NULL pointer dereference in tableColumnList in shell.c because it fails to consider certain cases where `sqlite3_step(pStmt)==SQLITE_ROW` is false and a data structure is never initialized.

Patch / fix

  • sqlite3 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.20.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15286

  • sqlite Alpine 3.6 3.20.1-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-15286

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15286 updated cvss 3.3

sqlite: NULL pointer dereference in tableColumnList

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sqlite Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 lemon, sqlite, sqlite-tcl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 lemon, sqlite, sqlite-tcl Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Ha0Team/crash-of-sqlite3/blob/master/poc.md referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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