VA-26-155-01

Vulnerability from csaf_cisa - Published: 2026-06-04 14:10 - Updated: 2026-06-04 14:10
Summary
SQLite sqldiff remote code execution via argument injection
Notes
Legal Notice: All information products included in [https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/tree/develop/csaf_files/IT/white](https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/tree/develop/csaf_files/IT/white) are provided \"as is\" for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within. DHS does not endorse any commercial product or service, referenced in this product or otherwise. Further dissemination of this product is governed by the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) marking in the header. For more information about TLP, see [https://us-cert.cisa.gov/tlp/](https://us-cert.cisa.gov/tlp/).
Countries and Areas Deployed: Worldwide
Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Information Technology
Risk Evaluation: An attacker could use the '-L' option to load an arbitrary DLL with a crafted command line argument string that results in command line file arguments being misinterpreted as command line options.
Recommended Practices: Fixed on 2025-12-26.
Company Headquarters Location: United States
CVE-2025-71316
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-176 - Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
SQLite sqldiff <2025-12-26
SQLite / sqldiff
 <2025-12-26
Vendor Fix fix
Product Identifier Version Remediation
SQLite sqldiff 2025-12-26
SQLite / sqldiff
 2025-12-26
Vendor Fix fix
References
Acknowledgments
Vincent55
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