CVE-2018-1284

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hive: from 0.6.0 through 2.3.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103750
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29184dbce4a37be2af36e539ecb479b1d27868f73ccfdff46c7174b4%40%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103750
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29184dbce4a37be2af36e539ecb479b1d27868f73ccfdff46c7174b4%40%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%3E

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