Description
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.
Affected products
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Apache Software Foundation Apache Hive
All versions of Hive including 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlieraffected