# CVE-2018-14335: An issue was discovered in H2 1.4.197.

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2018-07-24 · Updated: 2024-10-29

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## References

- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45105/
- https://gist.github.com/owodelta/9714faf9a86435cef5a99d4930eaee20
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/582d4165de6507b0be82d5a6f9a1ce392ec43a00c9fed32bacf7fe1e%40%3Cuser.ignite.apache.org%3E
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0727
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240726-0003/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45105

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