CVE-2026-119372: medium-severity vulnerability in SQLite
SQLite before 3.54.0 Use-After-Free in FTS3 fts3BestSnippet() via snippet()
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.8epss 0.1%
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.
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 1.5%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-2026-119379HIGHSQLite before 3.54.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via Session Extension sessionUpdateFind()EPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-119378MEDIUMSQLite before 3.54.0 Use-After-Free in R-Tree nodeWrite()EPSS 0.3%
References
https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/sqlite-fts3-snippethttps://github.com/sqlite/sqlitehttps://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/version-3.53.4/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c#L561https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/a87bd2471a9c0606e78d3c3678bcd9cecaa0e731https://sqlite.org/bugs/info/2026-08-17T09:18:24Zhttps://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_54_0.htmlhttps://sqlite.org/src/info/e4635c4153https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sqlite-before-3.54.0-use-after-free-in-fts3-fts3bestsnippet-via-snippet