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Apache Impala: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Apache Impala has 11 published vulnerabilities, 4 of them in the last 12 months. 3 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs11
Last 12 months4
Critical3
Actively exploited0

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Latest vulnerabilities

CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2026-65181High (8.1)0.54%—Sep 9, 2026
Insufficient authorization of Data Source tables in Impala 2.7-4.5 allows a client with privileges to upload a file to remote storage and create a table to execute arbitrary Java code. Users are recommended to upgrade…
CVE-2026-57866High (8.8)0.58%—Sep 9, 2026
Server side request forgery in Apache Impala versions 4.4.x and 4.5.x. Authenticated Impala users with permissions to execute the ai_generate_text() function can exfiltrate secrets provided by the credential providers…
CVE-2026-56207Critical (9.8)0.46%—Sep 9, 2026
Signature of Bearer token is not verified in last step of SAML2 authentication for Impala's hs2-http interface, allowing altering user name and acting as another user. This issue affects Apache Impala: >=4.0.0. Users…
CVE-2026-54048Medium (5.3)0.54%—Sep 9, 2026
Specifying tblproperties('avro.schema.url'=' http://...' ) or with a 'file:///' URI on a table in Impala 2.0.0 to 4.5.1 on all platforms allows an attacker to trigger a GET request to internal endpoints they may not…
CVE-2021-28131High (7.5)3.3%—Jul 22, 2021
Impala sessions use a 16 byte secret to verify that the session is not being hijacked by another user. However, these secrets appear in the Impala logs, therefore Impala users with access to the logs can use another…
CVE-2019-10084High (7.5)0.99%—Nov 5, 2019
In Apache Impala 2.7.0 to 3.2.0, an authenticated user with access to the IDs of active Impala queries or sessions can interact with those sessions or queries via a specially-constructed request and thereby potentially…
CVE-2018-11792Critical (9.8)2.5%—Oct 24, 2018
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…
CVE-2018-11785Medium (6.5)1.2%—Oct 24, 2018
Missing authorization check in Apache Impala before 3.0.1 allows a Kerberos-authenticated but unauthorized user to inject random data into a running query, leading to wrong results for a query.
CVE-2017-9792Medium (6.5)1.6%—Oct 4, 2017
In Apache Impala (incubating) before 2.10.0, a malicious user with "ALTER" permissions on an Impala table can access any other Kudu table data by altering the table properties to make it "external" and then changing the…
CVE-2017-5652High (7.5)1.2%—Jul 10, 2017
During a routine security analysis, it was found that one of the ports in Apache Impala (incubating) 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 sent data in plaintext even when the cluster was configured to use TLS. The port in question was used…
CVE-2017-5640Critical (9.8)2.9%—Jul 10, 2017
It was noticed that a malicious process impersonating an Impala daemon in Apache Impala (incubating) 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 could cause Impala daemons to skip authentication checks when Kerberos is enabled (but TLS is not). If…

🎯 How it gets exploited (ATT&CK techniques)

  1. T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services2
  2. T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter1
  3. T1078.001 Default Accounts1
  4. T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application1
  5. T1552.007 Container API1

Number of CVEs of this technology mapped to each exploitation or primary-impact technique.

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