GHSA-22wj-vf5f-wrvjHighCVSS 7.8

Password exposure in H2 Database

Published
November 23, 2022
Last Modified
July 3, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The web-based admin console in H2 Database Engine through 2.1.214 can be started via the CLI with the argument -webAdminPassword, which allows the user to specify the password in cleartext for the web admin console. Consequently, a local user (or an attacker that has obtained local access through some means) would be able to discover the password by listing processes and their arguments. NOTE: the vendor states "This is not a vulnerability of H2 Console ... Passwords should never be passed on the command line and every qualified DBA or system administrator is expected to know that."

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/com.h2database:h2:>= 1.4.198, < 2.2.220

🔗 References (8)