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GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2: Diesel's SQLite backend has possible UTF-8 corruption

May 5, 2026

Diesel uses the sqlite3_value_text function to receive strings from SQLite while deserializing query results. We misinterpreted the corresponding SQLite documentation that this function always returns a UTF-8 encoded string values as *const c_char. Based on that we used str::from_utf8_unchecked to construct a Rust string slice without any additional UTF-8 checks in place. It turned out that this function doesn’t always return correct UTF-8 strings. For field of the SQLite side storage type BLOB this pointer can contain arbitrary bytes, which makes the usage of str::from_utf8_unchecked unsound as this violates the safety contract of str to only contain valid UTF-8 encoded Strings.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2
  • github.com/diesel-rs/diesel
  • github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/pull/5042
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0111.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.3.8

Fixed versions

  • 2.3.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.3.8 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-89: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Source file

cargo/diesel/GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2.yml

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