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CVE-2018-11777

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-11777 describes a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Hive versions 2.3.3, 3.1.0, and earlier, where local resources on HiveServer2 machines are inadequately protected from malicious users when Ranger, Sentry, or SQL standard authorizers are not employed. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.1 (High), indicating that an authenticated attacker can achieve high confidentiality and integrity impacts with low attack complexity over the network. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0.0, <= 3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.hive:hive-execFixed in: 3.1.1
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.hive:hive-execFixed in: 2.3.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-rrfq-g5fq-fc9chigh

Improper Authentication in hive:hive-exec

Nov 21, 2018

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/963c8e2516405c9b532b4add16c03b2c5db621e0c83e80f45049cbbb%40%3Cdev.hive.apache.org%3E
securityfocus.com / bid/105886
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry