highVulnerability

GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2

Diesel uses the `sqlite3_value_text` function to receive strings from SQLite while deserializing query results. We misinterpreted the corresponding [SQLite](https://sqlite.org/c3ref/value_blob.html) 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. ## Mitigation The preferred mitigation to the outlined problem is to update to a Diesel version 2.3.8 or newer, which includes fixes for the problem. ## Resolution Diesel now correctly checks whether the provides byte buffer is actually valid UTF-8, instead of relying on SQLite's documentation. This fix is included in the `2.3.8` release.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2
severity
high
summary
Diesel's SQLite backend has possible UTF-8 corruption
cve_id
GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-05-05T18:08:05Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5x4-m2qf-r4f2
ghsa_updated
2026-05-05T18:08:05Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]rust/diesel

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]rust/diesel

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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