High CVSS 8.8
CVE-2026-51297
NVD analysis in progress
sqlite 3.41 has a use-after-free vulnerability in the JSON parsing logic. Remote adversaries can craft malicious JSON payload to trigger memory free followed by illegal memory access, which may lead to arbitrary code execution, sensitive information leakage and service denial.
What this means
- Exposure
- Exploitable remotely over the network and without authentication — but only if a user opens booby-trapped content.
- Impact
- An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
- Weakness
- Already-freed memory is reused, letting the attacker reclaim it and hijack execution.
- Likelihood
- Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.
What to doFold into the next patch cycle.
Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.