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Vulnerability details: VCID-vjrm-5cbd-qbfk
Vulnerability ID VCID-vjrm-5cbd-qbfk
Aliases CVE-2018-8740
Summary In SQLite through 3.22.0, databases whose schema is corrupted using a CREATE TABLE AS statement could cause a NULL pointer dereference, related to build.c and prepare.c.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
System Score Found at
cvssv3 3.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-8740.json
epss 0.02524 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.02524 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.02524 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
epss 0.09036 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
cvssv3 4 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8740
cvssv3 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8740
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00050.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-8740.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-8740
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6964
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sqlite3/+bug/1756349
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8740
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00009.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00037.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00022.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU4NZ6DDU4BEM3ACM3FM6GLEPX56ZQXK/
https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/timeline?r=corrupt-schema
https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/vdiff?from=1774f1c3baf0bc3d&to=d75e67654aa9620b
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103466
1558804 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558804
893195 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893195
cpe:2.3:a:sqlite:sqlite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:sqlite:sqlite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-8740 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8740
USN-4205-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4205-1/
USN-4394-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4394-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-8740.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8740
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8740
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.84916
EPSS Score 0.02524
Published At Aug. 1, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:34:57.707886+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/4205-1/ 37.0.0