GHSA-22wj-vf5f-wrvj

Password exposure in H2 Database

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2022-45868
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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 packages

PackageVersions
Maven · com.h2database:h2introduced 1.4.198, fixed 2.2.220

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database