CVE-2021-3119

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

Zetetic SQLCipher 4.x before 4.4.3 has a NULL pointer dereferencing issue related to sqlcipher_export in crypto.c and sqlite3StrICmp in sqlite3.c. This may allow an attacker to perform a remote denial of service attack. For example, an SQL injection can be used to execute the crafted SQL command sequence, which causes a segmentation fault.

Affected products

Zetetic SQLCipher: from 4.0 before 4.4.3 — fixed in 4.4.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Zetetic SQLCipher 4.4.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/commit/cb71f53e8cea4802509f182fa5bead0ac6ab0e7f#diff-9305215a9a0ea69300281fc4af90bc7f3437e34a0e1745d030213152993ddae4
https://www.telekom.com/resource/blob/621186/3fb50ca7a4a97728be18717ed7b0062c/dl-210308-critical-dos-vulnerability-in-sqlcipher-sql-command-processing-data.pdf
https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/commit/cb71f53e8cea4802509f182fa5bead0ac6ab0e7f#diff-9305215a9a0ea69300281fc4af90bc7f3437e34a0e1745d030213152993ddae4
https://www.telekom.com/resource/blob/621186/3fb50ca7a4a97728be18717ed7b0062c/dl-210308-critical-dos-vulnerability-in-sqlcipher-sql-command-processing-data.pdf

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