🛡️ CVE-2018-8028 — sentry

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Sentry may allow attacker to access/remove data from Sentry protected table

An authenticated user can execute ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITIONS without being authorized by Apache Sentry before 2.0.1. This can allow an attacker unauthorized access to the partitioned data of a Sentry protected table and can allow an attacker to remove data from a Sentry protected table.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-8028 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2018-8028 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.sentry:sentry (fixed in 2.0.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
cwiki.apache.org (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.sentry:sentry — 2.0.1

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