CVE-2018-11792: Apache Impala

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Apache Impala before 3.0.1, ALTER TABLE/VIEW RENAME required ALTER on the old table. This may pose a potential security risk, such as having ALTER on a table and ALL on a particular database allows a user to move the table to a database with ALL, which will automatically grant that user with ALL privilege on that table due to the privilege inherited from the database.

Affected products

• Apache Impala: before 3.0.1 (fixed in 3.0.1)

Published 2018-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.