CVE-2018-1284 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache hive
A malicious user can read arbitrary files on the HiveServer2 host via XPath UDFs when doAs is disabled, exposing sensitive data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-1284?
CVE-2018-1284 is a low-severity vulnerability in Apache Hive, published on 5 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Apache Hive 0.6.0 to 2.3.2, malicious user might use any xpath UDFs (xpath/xpath_string/xpath_boolean/xpath_number/xpath_double/xpath_float/xpath_long/xpath_int/xpath_short) to expose the content of a file on the machine running HiveServer2 owned by HiveServer2 user (usually hive) if hive.server2.enable.doAs=false.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1284?
6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.hive:hive, org.apache.hive:hive-exec and org.apache.hive:hive-service. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.apache.hive:hive Maven | From 0.6.0 | 2.3.3 |
org.apache.hive:hive Maven | From 0.6.0 | 2.3.3 |
org.apache.hive:hive-exec Maven | From 0.6.0 | 2.3.3 |
org.apache.hive:hive-exec Maven | From 0.6.0 | 2.3.3 |
org.apache.hive:hive-service Maven | From 0.6.0 | 2.3.3 |
org.apache.hive:hive-service Maven | From 0.6.0 | 2.3.3 |
Products include Apache Hive.
How do I fix CVE-2018-1284?
Upgrade org.apache.hive:hive to 2.3.3 or later.
Is CVE-2018-1284 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1284 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Hive
- CVE-2026-49845 Apache Hive: SQL Injection vulnerability in HiveMetaStore partition-name direct-SQL paths
- CVE-2018-21234 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Jodd
- CVE-2026-55976 Apache Hive: SSRF vulnerability in Hive Avro Serde due to Insufficient input validation on avro.schema.url
- CVE-2018-1282 SQL Injection in hive-jdbc
- CVE-2022-41137 Apache Hive: Deserialization of untrusted data when fetching partitions from the Metastore
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rxmr-c9jm-7mm8.