CVE-2018-1284: Apache Hive

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Hive: from 0.6.0, up to and including 2.3.2

Published 2018-04-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.