CVE-2018-11792 Information

Description

In Apache Impala before 3.0.1 ALTER TABLE/VIEW RENAME required ALTER on the old table. This may pose a potential security risk such as having ALTER on a table and ALL on a particular database allows a user to move the table to a database with ALL which will automatically grant that user with ALL privilege on that table due to the privilege inherited from the database.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105739 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cba8f18df15af862aa07c584d8dc85c44a199fb8f460edd498059247@3Cdev.impala.apache.org3E

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8