Apache Hive vulnerabilities

23 CVEs affecting Apache Hive, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2026-55976, published 2026-08-25.

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CVE-2018-21234, published 2020-05-21. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Jodd before 5.0.4 performs Deserialization of Untrusted JSON Data when setClassMetadataName is set.
CVE-2015-1772, published 2015-12-21. High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The LDAP implementation in HiveServer2 in Apache Hive before 1.0.1 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, as used in IBM InfoSphere BigInsights 3.0, 3.0.0.1, and 3.0.0.2 and other products, mishandles simple…
CVE-2020-13949, published 2021-02-12. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Thrift 0.9.3 to 0.13.0, malicious RPC clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service.
CVE-2015-7521, published 2016-01-29. High severity, CVSS 8.3. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The authorization framework in Apache Hive 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.2.0 and 1.2.1, on clusters protected by Ranger and SqlStdHiveAuthorization, allows attackers to bypass intended parent table…
CVE-2018-1282, published 2018-04-05. Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. This vulnerability in Apache Hive JDBC driver 0.7.1 to 2.3.2 allows carefully crafted arguments to be used to bypass the argument escaping/cleanup that JDBC driver does in PreparedStatement…
CVE-2014-0228, published 2014-11-16. Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Hive before 0.13.1, when in SQL standards based authorization mode, does not properly check the file permissions for (1) import and (2) export statements, which allows remote authenticated…
CVE-2020-1926, published 2021-03-16. Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Hive cookie signature verification used a non constant time comparison which is known to be vulnerable to timing attacks. This could allow recovery of another users cookie signature. The issue…
CVE-2018-11777, published 2018-11-08. High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Hive 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier, local resources on HiveServer2 machines are not properly protected against malicious user if ranger, sentry or sql standard authorizer is not in use.
CVE-2018-1284, published 2018-04-05. 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…
CVE-2018-1314, published 2018-11-08. 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…

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CVE-2026-55976, published 2026-08-25. Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Avro SerDe schema resolution in Apache Hive before 4.2.1 allows an authenticated remote attacker with CREATE TABLE privilege to cause the Hive server to fetch an…
CVE-2026-53561, published 2026-08-25. High severity, CVSS 7.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An improper authentication vulnerability in HiveServer2 SAML bearer-token validation in Apache Hive 4.0.0 through 4.2.0 (and later unreleased branches) on deployments using HTTP transport with…
CVE-2026-49845, published 2026-08-25. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. SQL injection in Hive Metastore direct SQL partition-name resolution in Apache Hive before 4.2.1 on all platforms allows authenticated users with access to Hive Metastore APIs to read, modify, or…
CVE-2025-62728, published 2025-11-26. Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. SQL injection vulnerability in Hive Metastore Server (HMS) when processing delete column statistics requests via the Thrift APIs. The vulnerability is only exploitable by trusted/authorized…
CVE-2024-29869, published 2025-01-28. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Hive creates a credentials file to a temporary directory in the file system with permissions 644 by default when the file permissions are not set explicitly. Any unauthorized user having access to…
CVE-2024-23953, published 2025-01-28. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Use of Arrays.equals() in LlapSignerImpl in Apache Hive to compare message signatures allows attacker to forge a valid signature for an arbitrary message byte by byte. The attacker should be an…
CVE-2024-23945, published 2024-12-23. Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Signing cookies is an application security feature that adds a digital signature to cookie data to verify its authenticity and integrity. The signature helps prevent malicious actors from modifying…
CVE-2022-41137, published 2024-12-05. High severity, CVSS 8.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Hive Metastore (HMS) uses SerializationUtilities#deserializeObjectWithTypeInformation method when filtering and fetching partitions that is unsafe and can lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE)…
CVE-2023-35701, published 2024-05-03. Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache Hive. The vulnerability affects the Hive JDBC driver component and it can potentially lead to arbitrary code…
CVE-2021-34538, published 2022-07-16. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Hive before 3.1.3 "CREATE" and "DROP" function operations does not check for necessary authorization of involved entities in the query. It was found that an unauthorized user can manipulate an…