CVE-2022-46908

Publication date 12 December 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

SQLite through 3.40.0, when relying on --safe for execution of an untrusted CLI script, does not properly implement the azProhibitedFunctions protection mechanism, and instead allows UDF functions such as WRITEFILE.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sqlite	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
sqlite3	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.37.2-2ubuntu0.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

per upstream, this isn't an important issue as it only affects the debugging CLI, marking as low priority

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
sqlite3	Upstream: https://sqlite.org/src/info/cefc032473ac5ad2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.3 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6566-1
SQLite vulnerabilities
3 January 2024