Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc · CVE-2018-1314 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 21, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc (Maven)

Affected versions

< 2.3.4

>= 3.0.0, < 3.1.1

Patched versions

2.3.4

3.1.1

Description

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 21, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

4.3

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

Low

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

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