CVE-2022-46908

Publication date 12 December 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.3 · High

Score breakdown

Description

SQLite through 3.40.0, when relying on --safe for execution of an untrusted CLI script, does not properly implement the azProhibitedFunctions protection mechanism, and instead allows UDF functions such as WRITEFILE.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sqlite 23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
sqlite3 23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.37.2-2ubuntu0.3
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

per upstream, this isn't an important issue as it only affects the debugging CLI, marking as low priority

Patch details

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Package Patch details
sqlite3

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.3 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6566-1
    • SQLite vulnerabilities
    • 3 January 2024

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