CVE-2022-23221

Publication date 19 January 2022

Last updated 22 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

H2 Console before 2.1.210 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a jdbc:h2:mem JDBC URL containing the IGNORE_UNKNOWN_SETTINGS=TRUE;FORBID_CREATION=FALSE;INIT=RUNSCRIPT substring, a different vulnerability than CVE-2021-42392.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
h2database	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.1.210+really1.4.197-1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 1.4.197-4+deb10u1build0.21.10.1
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.4.197-4+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.4.196-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.4.191-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

yomonokio

Upstream states that persistent databases created by H2 1.4.200 and older versions require export into SQL script with that old version and creation of a new database with the new version and execution of this script in it.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H