CVE-2016-6153

medium
Published 2016-09-26 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

os_unix.c in SQLite before 3.13.0 improperly implements the temporary directory search algorithm, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (application crash), or have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of the current working directory for temporary files.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
59%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
fedora fedora24affected
suse suse42.1affected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.13.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.13.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.13.0-1
debian debiansidfixed3.13.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.13.0-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sqlitesqlite{"endIncluding":"3.12.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.