Signing cookies is an application security feature that adds a digital signature to cookie data to verify its authenticity and integrity. The signature helps prevent malicious actors from modifying the cookie value, which can lead to security vulnerabilities and exploitation. Apache Hive’s service component accidentally exposes the signed cookie to the end user when there is a mismatch in signature between the current and expected cookie. Exposing the correct cookie signature can lead to further exploitation.

The vulnerable CookieSigner logic was introduced in Apache Hive by HIVE-9710 (1.2.0) and in Apache Spark by SPARK-14987 (2.0.0). The affected components are the following:
* org.apache.hive:hive-service
* org.apache.spark:spark-hive-thriftserver_2.11
* org.apache.spark:spark-hive-thriftserver_2.12

Affected Packages

Maven org.apache.hive:hive-service

Affected versions: 1.2.0 (fixed in 4.0.0)

Maven org.apache.spark:spark-hive-thriftserver_2.11

Affected versions: 0 (last affected: 2.4.8)

Maven org.apache.spark:spark-hive-thriftserver_2.12

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 3.4.2)

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-23945

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-77pm-w3hx-f8mj

Published

December 23, 2024 6:30 PM

Last Modified

December 26, 2024 8:09 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.apache.hive:hive-service

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 23, 2025 6:29 AM

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