SQL injection in Apache Hive - CVE-2025-62728

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SQL injection in Apache Hive - CVE-2025-62728

Published: November 28, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU118822
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-62728
CWE-ID: CWE-89
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in Hive Metastore Server (HMS) when processing delete column statistics requests via the Thrift APIs. A remote user can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.


Affected software

Apache Hive
watsonx.data

How to mitigate CVE-2025-62728

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Hive - update to 4.2.0
watsonx.data - update to 2.3.1

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