CVE-2018-1314: Apache Hive

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Apache Hive 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier, Hive "EXPLAIN" operation does not check for necessary authorization of involved entities in a query. An unauthorized user can do "EXPLAIN" on arbitrary table or view and expose table metadata and statistics.

Affected products

• Apache Hive: up to and including 2.3.3; from 3.0.0, up to and including 3.1.0

Published 2018-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.