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CVE-2018-8740
In SQLite through 3.22.0, databases whose schema is corrupted using a CREATE TABLE AS statement could cause a NULL pointer dereference,…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 8.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In SQLite through 3.22.0, databases whose schema is corrupted using a CREATE TABLE AS statement could cause a NULL pointer dereference, related to build.c and prepare.c.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.0% · top 5.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190111 [SECURITY] [DLA 1633-1] sqlite3 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sqlite3/+bug/1756349 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 103466 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/vdiff?from=1774f1c3baf0bc3d&to=d75e67654aa9620b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/timeline?r=corrupt-schema (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6964 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1426 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-49f80a78bc (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- USN-4205-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- USN-4394-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200822 [SECURITY] [DLA 2340-1] sqlite3 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230522 [SECURITY] [DLA 3431-1] sqlite security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-20350 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-8740)Record last updated .