CVE-2018-8028
An authenticated user can execute ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITIONS without being authorized by Apache Sentry before 2.0.1. This can allow…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 29% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An authenticated user can execute ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITIONS without being authorized by Apache Sentry before 2.0.1. This can allow an attacker unauthorized access to the partitioned data of a Sentry protected table and can allow an attacker to remove data from a Sentry protected table.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Sentry
- affected Apache Sentry 2.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.sentry:sentryGHSA-6xhj-p29v-82j8 (opens in a new tab)
References
1
- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Vulnerabilities+found+in+Apache+Sentry (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2877 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6xhj-p29v-82j8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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