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CVE-2018-10054

Affected software2 products, listed below
Severity8.8 High CVSS 3.1 2 scores
Fixed in0.9.5697
WeaknessImproper input validation (CWE-20)
Published11 Apr 2018
Updated17 Jun 2026

Disputed. The record is tagged disputed: someone contests that the vulnerability exists. We still show our assessment, because the dispute is about whether the vulnerability exists, not whether Waratek can block it.

Description

H2 1.4.197, as used in Datomic before 0.9.5697 and other products, allows remote code execution because CREATE ALIAS can execute arbitrary Java code. NOTE: the vendor's position is "h2 is not designed to be run outside of a secure environment."

Exploitation status

Working exploit published

A reviewed exploit catalogue lists ready-to-run exploit code for this CVE.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Metasploit.
  • EPSS 34% chance in 30 days A model's forecast, not a report of exploitation. Higher than 98% of all scored CVEs.
IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
Metasploit H2 Web Interface Create Alias RCE (excellent rank)

Waratek protection

Mitigation candidate

A kind of vulnerability Waratek's rules address, with exploit code published or exploitation reported. No rule exists and none is planned yet. The decision below says what we found to build a rule from.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Inferred
  • Record disputed disputed
Decided by The affected package being open source on Maven, so the fix can be read
Finding This CVE affects an open-source Java library published on Maven Central (Maven packages: com.datomic:datomic-free), so it is squarely in ARMR's territory and the source needed to understand the defect is public. That makes it a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: the diff between the affected and fixed versions has not been read, and a closer look may find no hook point ARMR can act on.

CVSS

8.8 HIGH v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD Primary published
CVSS 2.0 6.5 none AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P NVD Primary

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
com.datomic:datomic-free 0 0.9.5697 unbounded

Products and versions

3 products, 3 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd cognitect datomic generic < 0.9.5697
osv com.datomic datomic-free generic < 0.9.5697
nvd h2database h2 generic 1.4.197

References

URLTags
https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/1225 WEB
https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/1808#issuecomment-599203115 WEB
https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/3099 WEB
https://forum.datomic.com/t/important-security-update-0-9-5697/379 WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/582d4165de6507b0be82d5a6f9a1ce392ec43a00c9fed32bacf7fe1e%40%3Cuser.ignite.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/582d4165de6507b0be82d5a6f9a1ce392ec43a00c9fed32bacf7fe1e@%3Cuser.ignite.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8aaf4ee16bbaf6204731d4770d96ebb34b258cd79b491f9cdd7f2540%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E WEB
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8aaf4ee16bbaf6204731d4770d96ebb34b258cd79b491f9cdd7f2540@%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E WEB
https://mthbernardes.github.io/rce/2018/03/14/abusing-h2-database-alias.html WEB
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0003 WEB

Timeline

Published2018-04-11By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.