Advisories for Maven/Org.apache.polaris/Polaris-Core package

Apache Polaris accepts literal * characters in namespace and table names. When it later builds temporary S3 access policies for delegated table access, those same characters appear to be reused unescaped in S3 IAM resource patterns and s3:prefix conditions. In S3 IAM policy matching, * is treated as a wildcard rather than as ordinary text. That means temporary credentials issued for one crafted table can match the storage path of …

In plain terms, Apache Polaris is supposed to issue short-lived GCS credentials that only work for one table's files, but a crafted namespace or table name can cause those credentials to work across the configured bucket instead. Apache Polaris builds Google Cloud Storage downscoped credentials by creating a Credential Access Boundary (CAB) with CEL conditions that are intended to restrict access to the requested table's storage path. The relevant CEL …