CVE-2018-11792
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…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.46%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.46% probability · 83th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-732
- Affected
- apache/impala
- Source
- security@apache.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105739Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cba8f18df15af862aa07c584d8dc85c44a199fb8f460edd498059247%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105739Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cba8f18df15af862aa07c584d8dc85c44a199fb8f460edd498059247%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.