CVE-2022-45868 — The web-based admin console in H2 Database Engine before 2

The web-based admin console in H2 Database Engine before 2.2.220 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 loca

01What is this vulnerability?

The web-based admin console in H2 Database Engine before 2.2.220 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…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-11-19T20:58:46.087Z

09References

• sites.google.com — https://sites.google.com/sonatype.com/vulnerabilities/sonatype-2022-6243
• github.com — https://github.com/h2database/h2database/blob/96832bf5a97cdc0adc1f2066ed61c54990…
• github.com — https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/3686
• github.com — https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-22wj-vf5f-wrvj
• github.com — https://github.com/h2database/h2database/pull/3833
• github.com — https://github.com/h2database/h2database/releases/tag/version-2.2.220