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 Packages

Maven org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 2.3.4)

Maven org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc

Affected versions: 3.0.0 (fixed in 3.1.1)

Related CVEs

CVE-2018-1314

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-jmf4-pq78-f8vj

Published

November 21, 2018 10:24 PM

Last Modified

September 14, 2021 7:47 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 16, 2025 6:29 AM

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