CVE-2025-62728

SQL injection vulnerability in Hive Metastore Server (HMS) when processing delete column statistics requests via the Thrift APIs. The vulnerability is only exploitable by trusted/authorized users/applications that are allowed to call directly the Thrift APIs. In most real-world deployments, HMS is accessible to only a handful of applications (e.g., Hiveserver2) thus the vulnerability is not exploitable. Moreover, the vulnerable code cannot be reached when metastore.try.direct.sql property is set to false.

This issue affects Apache Hive: from 4.1.0 before 4.2.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.2.0, which fixes the issue. Users who cannot upgrade directly are encouraged to set metastore.try.direct.sql property to false if the HMS Thrift APIs are exposed to general public.

Database specific

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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/hive

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/apache/hive

Events

Introduced

75e40b7537c91a70ccaa31c397d21823c7528eeb

Last Affected

75e40b7537c91a70ccaa31c397d21823c7528eeb

Database specific

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        }
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}

Affected versions

4.*

4.1.0

rel/release-4.*

rel/release-4.1.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-62728.json"