Daniel Dai
2018-11-07 21:24:03 UTC
CVE-2018-1314: Hive explain query not being authorized
Severity: Important
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: This vulnerability affects all versions of Hive,
including 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier
Description: 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.
Mitigation: all Hive users shall upgrade to 2.3.4 or 3.1.1 or later
Severity: Important
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: This vulnerability affects all versions of Hive,
including 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier
Description: 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.
Mitigation: all Hive users shall upgrade to 2.3.4 or 3.1.1 or later