CVE-2017-9792

Summary

CVECVE-2017-9792
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-10-04 01:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:50:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Impala 2.8.0 All All All
Application Apache Impala 2.9.0 All All All
Application Apache Impala 2.8.0 All All All
Application Apache Impala 2.9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Apache IMPALA CVE-2017-9792 Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
[IMPALA-5638] Alter table set tblproperties inconsistency for 'external' - ASF JIRA CONFIRM issues.apache.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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