CVE-2025-62728: Apache Hive: SQL injection vulnerability when processing delete column statistics requests via the HMS Thrift APIs

[Stamatis Zampetakis <zabetak () apache org>]

Severity: moderate 

Affected versions:

- Apache Hive (org.apache.hive:hive-standalone-metastore-server) 4.1.0 before 4.2.0

Description:

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.

This issue is being tracked as HIVE-29269 

Credit:

WuKong (finder)

References:

https://hive.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62728
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-29269