🛡️ CVE-2021-40331 — ranger-hive-plugin

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-732 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Ranger Hive Plugin missing permissions check

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability was found in the Apache Ranger Hive Plugin. Any user with SELECT privilege on a database can alter the ownership of the table in Hive when Apache Ranger Hive Plugin is enabled

This issue affects Apache Ranger Hive Plugin: from 2.0.0 through 2.3.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.0 or later.

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 none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-40331 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.

Affected software

CVE-2021-40331 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.ranger:ranger-hive-plugin (from 2.0.0 up to 2.4.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 May 2023 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-732
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-05-05
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.ranger:ranger-hive-plugin 2.0.0 2.4.0

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