Medium
Security advisory
Apache Hive cookie signature verification used a non constant time comparison which is known to be vulnerable to timing attacks. This could allow recovery of another users cookie signature. The issue was addressed in Apache Hive 2.3.8
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1926
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Apache Hive cookie signature verification used a non constant time comparison which is known to be vulnerable to timing attacks. This could allow recovery of another users cookie signature. The issue was addressed in Apache Hive 2.3.8
osv:CVE-2020-1926
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1926",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.352431312Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-22708",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd186eedff68102ba1e68059a808101c5aa587e11542c7dcd26e7b9d7%40%3Cuser.hive.apache.org%3E"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430246,
"published_at": "2021-03-16T13:15:11.893+00:00"
}