CVE-2018-1314

In Apache Hive 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier, Hive "EXPLAIN" operation does not check for necessary authorization of involved entities in a query. An unauthorized user can do "EXPLAIN" on arbitrary table or view and expose table metadata and statistics.

Score

CVSS 3.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - security@apache.org

Published

2018-11-08

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-284, CWE-862

Affected products

• Hive (Apache)
• Apache Hive (Apache Software Foundation)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105884
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3da47dbcbf09697387f29d2f1aed970523b6b334d93afd3cced23727%40%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%…