diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/files/CVE-2021-20223.patch b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/files/CVE-2021-20223.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..65e914c2c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/files/CVE-2021-20223.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From d1d43efa4fb0f2098c0e2c5bf2e807c58d5ec05b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: dan <dan@noemail.net>
+Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:24:36 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Prevent fts5 tokenizer unicode61 from considering '\0' to be
+ a token characters, even if other characters of class "Cc" are.
+
+FossilOrigin-Name: b7b7bde9b7a03665e3691c6d51118965f216d2dfb1617f138b9f9e60e418ed2f
+
+CVE: CVE-2021-20223
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/d1d43efa4fb0f2098c0e2c5bf2e807c58d5ec05b.patch]
+Comment: Removed manifest, manifest.uuid and fts5tok1.test as these files are not present in the amalgamated source code
+Signed-Off-by: Sana.Kazi@kpit.com
+---
+--- a/sqlite3.c        2022-09-09 13:54:30.010768197 +0530
++++ b/sqlite3.c        2022-09-09 13:56:25.458769142 +0530
+@@ -227114,6 +227114,7 @@
+     }
+     iTbl++;
+   }
++  aAscii[0] = 0;                  /* 0x00 is never a token character */
+ }
+
+ /*
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.31.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.31.1.bb
index 3440bf4913..04eb3683ec 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.31.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/sqlite/sqlite3_3.31.1.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.sqlite.org/2020/sqlite-autoconf-${SQLITE_PV}.tar.gz \
            file://CVE-2020-13631.patch \
            file://CVE-2020-13632.patch \
            file://CVE-2022-35737.patch \
+           file://CVE-2021-20223.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2d0a553534c521504e3ac3ad3b90f125"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "62284efebc05a76f909c580ffa5c008a7d22a1287285d68b7825a2b6b51949ae"