In SQLite through 3.31.1, the ALTER TABLE implementation has a use-after-free, as demonstrated by an ORDER BY clause that belongs to a compound SELECT statement.
CVE-2020-11656
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 52EG Risk 52/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation8% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 7.6%
- EPSS %ILE
- 94th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
April 9, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Oct 4, 2026[R2] Tenable.sc 5.19.0 Fixes Multiple Third-party Vulnerabilities - Security Advisory | Tenable®
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14SQLite: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202007-26) — Gentoo security
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-26Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-11656(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2025:16504Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.19 security, enhancement & bug fix update
- CVE-2020-11656Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Critical
In SQLite through 3.31.1 the ALTER TABLE implementation has a use-after-free as demonstrated by an ORDER BY clause that belongs to a compound SELECT statement.
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
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| redhat | odf4/rook-ceph-rhel9-operator:sha256:3c15da58b7ff718d5dbf00fe344b6fa8d62d023bd18b6f6e708e9613fc95c594 | 2025-09-23 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
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Weakness Classification(1)
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