SCA: security update for com.h2database:h2 (GHSA-7rpj-hg47-cx62)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412251

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- The package com.h2database:h2 from 1.4.198 and before 2.0.202 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE)
Injection via the org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLXML class object, when it receives parsed string data from
org.h2.jdbc.JdbcResultSet.getSQLXML() method. If it executes the getSource() method when the parameter is
DOMSource.class it will trigger the vulnerability. (CVE-2021-23463)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rpj-hg47-cx62

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 412251

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23463

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23463

cwe: CWE-611