SQLite 3.25.2, when queries are run on a table with a malformed PRIMARY KEY, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (applicati

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• apple icloudbefore 7.10
• apple iphone osbefore 12.1.3
• apple itunesbefore 12.9.3
• apple mac os xbefore 10.14.2
• apple watchosbefore 5.1.3
• sqlite sqliteup to 3.25.2 inclusive

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2019-8457SQLite3 from 3.6.0 to and including 3.27.2 is vulnerable to heap out-of-bound read in the rtreenode() function when handling invalid rtree t
  53Plan
• CVE-2025-6965Integer Truncation on SQLite
  50Plan
• CVE-2015-5895Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in SQLite before 3.8.10.2, as used in Apple iOS before 9, have unknown impact and attack vectors.
  43Plan
• CVE-2017-10989The getNodeSize function in ext/rtree/rtree.c in SQLite through 3.19.3, as used in GDAL and other products, mishandles undersized RTree blob
  42Plan
• CVE-2020-11656In SQLite through 3.31.1, the ALTER TABLE implementation has a use-after-free, as demonstrated by an ORDER BY clause that belongs to a compo
  41Plan
• CVE-2019-19646pragma.c in SQLite through 3.30.1 mishandles NOT NULL in an integrity_check PRAGMA command in certain cases of generated columns.
  41Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const owner = req.query.owner;2const rows = await db.query(3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'"4);

1const owner = req.query.owner;2const rows = await db.query(3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",4  [owner]5);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.