Skip to content
fr Sign in
Not rated

CVE-2017-9792 In Apache Impala (incubating) before 2.10.0, a malicious user with "ALTER" permissions on an Impala table can access any…

Description

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.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Apache Impala Versions not published

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last modified

Other CVEs of Apache Impala

The 13 CVEs of Apache Impala →
CVE-2026-93684 An SQL user using Impala up to and including version 4.5.2 with only SELECT permission can put JavaScript in a table… Not rated CVE-2026-90466 Path traversal of 'trusted_jar_paths' in Impala 4.5.2 allows an attacker-controlled JAR to be loaded via a relative path… Not rated CVE-2026-97720 Incorrect implementation of JWT/OAuth authentication in Impala executors in Apache Impala versions up to and including… Not rated CVE-2026-65181 Insufficient authorization of Data Source tables in Impala 2.7-4.5 allows a client with privileges to upload a file to… Not rated
Track this CVE