CVE-2018-1314: Missing Authorization

November 21, 2018 (updated September 14, 2021)

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

www.securityfocus.com/bid/105884
github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmf4-pq78-f8vj
lists.apache.org/thread.html/3da47dbcbf09697387f29d2f1aed970523b6b334d93afd3cced23727@%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1314

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