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CVE-2022-45868

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-45868 describes a cleartext password vulnerability in the H2 Database Engine's web-based admin console, affecting versions prior to 2.2.220. A local attacker can discover the web admin console password by listing process arguments when the console is started via the CLI with the -webAdminPassword argument. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.214CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:h2database:h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
22.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.h2database:h2Fixed in: 2.2.220

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-22wj-vf5f-wrvjhigh

Password exposure in H2 Database

Nov 23, 2022

References

github.com / advisories/GHSA-22wj-vf5f-wrvj
github.com / h2database/h2database/blob/96832bf5a97cdc0adc1f2066ed61c54990d66ab5/h2/src/main/org/h2/server/web/WebServer.java
Third Party Advisory
github.com / h2database/h2database/issues/3686
github.com / h2database/h2database/pull/3833
github.com / h2database/h2database/releases/tag/version-2.2.220
sites.google.com / sonatype.com/vulnerabilities/sonatype-2022-6243
ExploitThird Party Advisory