CVE-2018-1314

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.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation / Apache HiveAll versions of Hive including 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier – All versions of Hive including 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier

References

• MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105884
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3da47dbcbf09697387f29d2f1aed970523b6b334d93afd3cced23727%40%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%3E