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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2018-11777 json

Improper Authentication in hive:hive-exec

published 2018-11-08 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rrfq-g5fq-fc9c , EUVD-2018-0775

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.hive:hive-exec 2.3.4, 3.1.1

Exploit prediction

2.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.hive:hive-exec
>=3.0.0, <3.1.1
<2.3.4
3.1.1
2.3.4

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Hive

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.