Privilege Escalation via ALTER TABLE/VIEW RENAME in Apache Impala

CVE-2018-11792 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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