Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in Apache hive

published 2018-04-05 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-p639-xxv5-j383 , EUVD-2018-0764

cvss: 3.7; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.7%; EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits: 0; none known

In Apache Hive 2.1.0 to 2.3.2, when 'COPY FROM FTP' statement is run using HPL/SQL extension to Hive, a compromised/malicious FTP server can cause the file to be written to an arbitrary location on the cluster where the command is run from. This is because FTP client code in HPL/SQL does not verify the destination location of the downloaded file. This does not affect hive cli user and hiveserver2 user as hplsql is a separate command line script and needs to be invoked differently.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3

maven org.apache.hive:hive 2.3.3
maven org.apache.hive:hive-exec 2.3.3
maven org.apache.hive:hive-service 2.3.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1315 updated 2026-08-04 cvss 6.3

hive: 'COPY FROM FTP' feature allows malicious FTP server to write arbitrary files to the cluster

Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 hive
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	3.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub	3.0	3.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.apache.hive:hive	>=2.1.0, <2.3.3	2.3.3
maven	org.apache.hive:hive-exec	>=2.1.0, <2.3.3	2.3.3
maven	org.apache.hive:hive-service	>=2.1.0, <2.3.3	2.3.3

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hive

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-1315
GitHub Advisory GHSA-p639-xxv5-j383
NVD CVE-2018-1315

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Summary