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.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-862"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:43:44Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "MODERATE"
}