PyAthena prior to 3.35.4 contains a sql injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary SQL by exploiting improper quote-escaping in DefaultParameterFormatter.format(), which routes DELETE and CTAS statements to the _escape_hive function that backslash-escapes single quotes rather than doubling them. Because Athena and Trino do not treat backslashes as escape characters inside string literals, attacker-supplied input such as a single quote followed by SQL syntax causes the parser to terminate the string literal prematurely, enabling data exfiltration via UNION SELECT, execution of destructive statements, and attacker-controlled CTAS destination and content.
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"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-89"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/65xxx/CVE-2026-65321.json"
}{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
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"last_affected": "3.35.3"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"REFERENCES"
]
}