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.
problem types: Improper Access Control
affected:
{
product: Apache Hive
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
versions:
status: affected, version: All versions of Hive including 2.3.3, 3.1.0 and earlier
}