🛡️ CVE-2021-34538 — hive

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-306 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Hive before 3.1.3 CREATE and DROP function operations do not check for necessary authorization.

Apache Hive before 3.1.3 CREATE and DROP function operations do not check for necessary authorization of involved entities in the query. It was found that an unauthorized user can manipulate an existing UDF without having the privileges to do so. This allowed unauthorized or underprivileged users to drop and recreate UDFs pointing them to new jars that could be potentially malicious.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-34538 is classified as CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function. A sensitive function can be reached without authenticating at all.

Affected software

CVE-2021-34538 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.hive:hive (fixed in 3.1.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 July 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)
github.com (Package)
lists.apache.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-306
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-07-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.hive:hive — 3.1.3

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