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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-H2DATABASE-1191903
- published1 Jun 2025
- disclosed24 Jul 2018
Introduced: 24 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-14335 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream h2database package and not the h2database package as distributed by Ubuntu.
An issue was discovered in H2 1.4.197. Insecure handling of permissions in the backup function allows attackers to read sensitive files (outside of their permissions) via a symlink to a fake database file.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-14335
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45105/
- https://gist.github.com/owodelta/9714faf9a86435cef5a99d4930eaee20
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/582d4165de6507b0be82d5a6f9a1ce392ec43a00c9fed32bacf7fe1e@%3Cuser.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0727
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/582d4165de6507b0be82d5a6f9a1ce392ec43a00c9fed32bacf7fe1e%40%3Cuser.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240726-0003/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45105