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CVE-2026-119376medium6.8

SQLite before 3.54.0 Stack Exhaustion via COLLATE Operator Chain

Impact

SQLite before 3.54.0 has a stack exhaustion vulnerability via COLLATE operator chains, allowing attackers to bypass the SQLITE_LIMIT_EXPR_DEPTH limit and crash the process. Attackers can supply chained COLLATE operators in SQL or an untrusted database view to trigger unbounded recursion. The weakness is uncontrolled recursion.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

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Other versions: unaffected

Original source description

SQLite before 3.54.0 contains a stack exhaustion vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass the SQLITE_LIMIT_EXPR_DEPTH limit by chaining COLLATE postfix operators. Attackers can supply roughly 175,000 chained COLLATE operators in SQL or an untrusted database view to trigger unbounded recursion in sqlite3WalkExprNN() and crash the process.

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CVE-2026-119376

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-674 ↗

Uncontrolled Recursion

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Vulnerable product

cpe:2.3:a:sqlite:sqlite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Before: 3.54.0

Original applicability statements
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        "operator": "OR",
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "vulnerable": true,
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:sqlite:sqlite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "versionEndExcluding": "3.54.0"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]
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2026-10-30

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References

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sqlite.org/src/info/252c0b7bf5a727d2
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github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/d54522a5b832422ab893a1e9fa7a99ab314ea4e2
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sqlite.org/bugs/info/2026-10-04T04:50:56Z
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github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/version-3.53.4/src/expr.c
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sqlite.org/releaselog/3_54_0.html
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abraxaslabs.tech/research/sqlite-collate-depth
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github.com/sqlite/sqlite
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www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sqlite-before-3.54.0-stack-exhaustion-via-collate-operator-chain
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