Critical severity · published Oct 24, 2018
CVE-2018-11792
In Apache Impala before 3.0.1, ALTER TABLE/VIEW RENAME required ALTER on the old table
9.8
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Impala · Apache
before 3.0.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11792
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11792
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105739
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cba8f18df15af862aa07c584d8dc85c44a199fb8f460edd498059247%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E
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