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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1314

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:34 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-1314

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Nov 2018, 14:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2018-1314
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1314",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2018-1314",
    "summary": "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.",
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    "products": [],
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:55.051109756Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3da47dbcbf09697387f29d2f1aed970523b6b334d93afd3cced23727%40%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%3E"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438341,
  "published_at": "2018-11-08T14:29:00.273+00:00"
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