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.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
4.3 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)