CVE-2018-1284: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

November 21, 2018 (updated September 20, 2021)

In Apache Hive 0.6.0 to 2.3.2, malicious user might use any xpath UDFs (xpath/xpath_string/xpath_boolean/xpath_number/xpath_double/xpath_float/xpath_long/xpath_int/xpath_short) to expose the content of a file on the machine running HiveServer2 owned by HiveServer2 user (usually hive) if hive.server2.enable.doAs=false.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-rxmr-c9jm-7mm8
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1284

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