CVE-2018-1314 Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc

What is CVE-2018-1314?

CVE-2018-1314 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Hive, published on 8 Nov 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1314?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Hive.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1314?

Upgrade org.apache.hive:hive-jdbc to a fixed version for your release line: 2.3.4 or 3.1.1.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2018-1314 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1314 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 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-21234 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Jodd Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-55976 Apache Hive: SSRF vulnerability in Hive Avro Serde due to Insufficient input validation on avro.schema.url Critical 9.1
• CVE-2018-1282 SQL Injection in hive-jdbc Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-41137 Apache Hive: Deserialization of untrusted data when fetching partitions from the Metastore High 8.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jmf4-pq78-f8vj.