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[SECURITY] CVE-2018-1314: Hive explain query not being authorized


From: Daniel Dai <daijy () apache org>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 13:24:03 -0800

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


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