CVE-2026-119378 SQLite before 3.54.0 Use-After-Free in R-Tree nodeWrite()

What is CVE-2026-119378?

CVE-2026-119378 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SQLite, published on 30 Oct 2026.

Official description

SQLite before 3.54.0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the R-Tree extension that allows attackers to make applications use freed heap memory by manipulating the %_node shadow table. Attackers can supply a database declaring %_node WITHOUT ROWID or with a RAISE(IGNORE) trigger so nodeWrite() hashes nodes as 0, crashing the process after node splits.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-119378?

It affects 1 product.

Products include SQLite.

How do I fix CVE-2026-119378?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2026-119378 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-119378 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in SQLite

• CVE-2015-5895 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in SQLite before 3.8.10.2, as used in Apple iOS before 9, have unknown impact and attack vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-35527 In SQLite 3.31.1, there is an out of bounds access problem through ALTER TABLE for views that have a nested FROM clause. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8457 SQLite3 from 3.6.0 to and including 3.27.2 is vulnerable to heap out-of-bound read in the rtreenode() function when handling invalid rtree tables. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-10989 The getNodeSize function in ext/rtree/rtree.c in SQLite through 3.19.3, as used in GDAL and other products, mishandles undersized RTree blob Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-119373 SQLite before 3.54.0 FTS5 Heap Buffer Overflow via fts5MergeRowidLists() High 8.5

All SQLite vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as AZL-111784, AZL-112673, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-119378, ECHO-3ad8-f422-90d6, GHSA-gf9q-68cx-3mq4, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119378.