CVE-2026-119371: medium-severity vulnerability in SQLite
SQLite before 3.54.0 Stack Exhaustion via CTE Chain in selectExpander()
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.8epss 0.2%
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.
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
Affected products
SQLite · SQLiteRelated CVEs — SQLite
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-6965HIGHInteger Truncation on SQLiteEPSS 73.5%CVE-2026-119586HIGHSQLite CLI through 3.54.1 Command Injection via .recover OutputEPSS 0.8%CVE-2025-29087LOWCVE-2025-29087EPSS 0.5%CVE-2025-7458MEDIUMSQLite integer overflow in key info allocation may lead to information disclosure.EPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-29088MEDIUMCVE-2025-29088EPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-11822MEDIUMSQLite before 3.53.2 Out-of-Bounds Read in FTS5 fts5LeafSeekEPSS 0.2%
References
https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/sqlite-cte-nesthttps://github.com/sqlite/sqlitehttps://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/version-3.53.4/src/select.c#L5754https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/e6ff280c839fdfc7418fd5add12e8f32702a17fbhttps://sqlite.org/bugs/info/2026-10-04T04:58:58Zhttps://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_54_0.htmlhttps://sqlite.org/src/info/f54730871303e655https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sqlite-before-3.54.0-stack-exhaustion-via-cte-chain-in-selectexpander