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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2026-119371 json

SQLite before 3.54.0 Stack Exhaustion via CTE Chain in selectExpander()

published 2026-10-30 10 d ago modified 2026-11-03 6 d ago also EUVD-2026-113782

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SQLite before 3.54.0 contains a stack exhaustion vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the SQLITE_LIMIT_EXPR_DEPTH nesting limit because common table expressions are not counted against it. Attackers can supply a WITH clause chaining tens of thousands of CTEs, via plain SQL or a view in an untrusted database file, causing unbounded selectExpander() recursion that crashes the process.

Patch / fix

  • SQLite SQLite 3.54.0
  • sqlite3 openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.54.1-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12493-1

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-2026-119371 updated cvss 5.5

sqlite: sqlite: Denial of Service via stack exhaustion from deeply nested Common Table Expressions

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 lemon, sqlite, sqlite-tcl, sqlite 3.46.1-6.el10_2
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 lemon, sqlite, sqlite-tcl, sqlite 3.46.1-6.el10_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 npm, rls, rust, cargo, lemon, clippy, +22 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 npm, rust, cargo, clippy, nodejs, sqlite, +15 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 sqlite 3.46.1-6.el10_2
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rust
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images sqlite 3.46.1-6.el10_2
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
10 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • abraxaslabs.tech https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/sqlite-cte-nest referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.8 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
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 4.0 6.8 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

Affected products

  • SQLite SQLite

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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