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."
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-200",
"CWE-312"
],
"github_reviewed_at": "2022-11-23T22:31:05Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2022-11-23T21:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
}