Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-71316

CriticalUpdated

Published: 04 June 2026

Published
04 June 2026
Modified
17 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 9.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0038 30.4th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-71316 is a critical-severity Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding (CWE-176) vulnerability in Blackhat (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.2 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 30.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

SQLite 'sqldiff.exe' does not securely handle the way the Microsoft Windows C runtime converts Unicode characters to ANSI codepages. An attacker could use the '-L' option to load an arbitrary DLL with a crafted command line argument string that results…

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in command line file arguments being misinterpreted as command line options. Fixed on or around 2025-12-26.

CWE(s)
CWE-176

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

CVE enables remote exploitation of sqldiff.exe via argument injection leading to arbitrary DLL load (CWE-176), directly mapping to T1190 when the utility is reachable.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-4116Shared CWE-176
CVE-2006-10002Shared CWE-176
CVE-2026-7040Shared CWE-176
CVE-2026-23950Shared CWE-176

Affected Assets

Blackhat
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References