A flaw was found in SQLite. A remote attacker can exploit a use-after-free vulnerability in the core parsing component by sending specially crafted SQL queries. This can lead to an application crash, sensitive information disclosure, and potentially allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.

Red Hat Product Security has evaluated CVE-2026-51303, which claims a Use-After-Free vulnerability in SQLite. After conducting independent analysis of the affected SQLite versions, Red Hat has determined that this vulnerability does not affect our products. SQLite upstream have confirmed this CVE as fictitious (https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/e2b966c8fc). This CVE has been marked as Rejected by the assigning CNA. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Not affected sqlite Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Not affected sqlite Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected sqlite Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected mingw-sqlite Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected nodejs:22/nodejs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected nodejs:24/nodejs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected rust-toolset:rhel8/rust Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected sqlite Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected nodejs:22/nodejs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected nodejs:24/nodejs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected rust Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected sqlite Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 Not affected rust Red Hat Hardened Images Not affected sqlite Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Not affected rhcos https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-51303 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-51303 https://github.com/programmervuln/cveadvisory-/blob/main/CVE-2026-51303 https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/expr.c https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/e2b966c8fc