Denial of service in SQLite

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU77781

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 4.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-36191

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within shell.c. A local user can send a specially crafted request to the database to trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

SQLite: 3.37.0 - 3.42.0

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:sqlite:sqlite:3.37.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:sqlite:sqlite:3.37.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:sqlite:sqlite:3.37.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/19f55ef73b
https://sqlite.org/src/info/cd24178bbaad4a1d

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.