{"id":"CVE-2021-3119","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-3119","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:29:12.834Z","title":"This may allow an attacker to perform a remote denial of service attack.","description":"Zetetic SQLCipher 4.x before 4.4.3 has a NULL pointer dereferencing issue related to sqlcipher_export in crypto.c and sqlite3StrICmp in sqlite3.c. This may allow an attacker to perform a remote denial of service attack. For example, an SQL injection can be used to execute the crafted SQL command sequence, which causes a segmentation fault.","published":"2021-03-25T23:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T04:04:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["zetetic/sqlcipher"],"epss":{"score":0.01558,"percentile":0.75039,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.56%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/commit/cb71f53e8cea4802509f182fa5bead0ac6ab0e7f#diff-9305215a9a0ea69300281fc4af90bc7f3437e34a0e1745d030213152993ddae4","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.telekom.com/resource/blob/621186/3fb50ca7a4a97728be18717ed7b0062c/dl-210308-critical-dos-vulnerability-in-sqlcipher-sql-command-processing-data.pdf","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/commit/cb71f53e8cea4802509f182fa5bead0ac6ab0e7f#diff-9305215a9a0ea69300281fc4af90bc7f3437e34a0e1745d030213152993ddae4","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.telekom.com/resource/blob/621186/3fb50ca7a4a97728be18717ed7b0062c/dl-210308-critical-dos-vulnerability-in-sqlcipher-sql-command-processing-data.pdf","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3119","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}