CVE-2017-9792 (GCVE-0-2017-9792)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-03 01:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:24
VLAI
Summary
In Apache Impala (incubating) before 2.10.0, a malicious user with "ALTER" permissions on an Impala table can access any other Kudu table data by altering the table properties to make it "external" and then changing the underlying table mapping to point to other Kudu tables. This violates and works around the authorization requirement that creating a Kudu external table via Impala requires an "ALL" privilege at the server scope. This privilege requirement for "CREATE" commands is enforced to precisely avoid this scenario where a malicious user can change the underlying Kudu table mapping. The fix is to enforce the same privilege requirement for "ALTER" commands that would make existing non-external Kudu tables external.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Information Disclosure
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1197 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Impala Affected: 2.8.0 incubating
Affected: 2.9.0 incubating
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Date Public
2017-09-29 00:00
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