Researchers warn of critical Java flaw impacting the console of the H2 Java SQL database. Users are advised to update their H2 database to mitigate remote code execution risk.

Critical flaw in the H2 open-source Java SQL database are similar to the Log4J vulnerability, but do not pose a widespread threat.

There a number of pure Java SQL database systems develolpers can embed into applications. In this tip we introduce two open source projects, HSQLDB and Apache Derby.