CVE-2020-27207

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-27207 · Published 26/11/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-27207 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting sqlcipher (zetetic).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 4.4.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sqlcipher zetetic	`≥ 4.0, < 4.4.1`	`4.4.1`

Description

Zetetic SQLCipher 4.x before 4.4.1 has a use-after-free, related to sqlcipher_codec_pragma and sqlite3Strlen30 in sqlite3.c. A remote denial of service attack can be performed. For example, a SQL injection can be used to execute the crafted SQL command sequence. After that, some unexpected RAM data is read.

References

sqlcipher/sqlcipher · Third Party Advisory
telekom.com/en/corporate-responsibility/data-protection-data-security/security/details/advisories-504842 · Third Party Advisory
telekom.com/resource/blob/612796/9f221708832a465f03585a45d7f59b45/dl-201112-denial-of-serviceen-data.pdf · Third Party Advisory

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