CVE-2026-97720
CriticalCVSS 9.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs
Summary
Incorrect implementation of JWT/OAuth authentication in Impala executors in Apache Impala versions up to and including 4.5.2 allows attackers to access resources served by the executor's webserver when that webserver is configured to accept JWT/OAuth tokens. Bearer token (JWT) signatures are not validated, resulting in the webserver accepting any valid JWT.
Risk Assessment
Attackers may gain unauthorized access to executor resources, potentially leading to data confidentiality and integrity breaches.
Recommendation
It is recommended to either disable JWT/OAuth auth for Impala executors or upgrade to version 4.5.3, which fixes this issue.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Impala
See all- CVE-2026-56207Critical
The Bearer token signature is not verified in the last step of SAML2 authentication for Impala's hs2-http interface, allowing alteration of the username and impersonation of another user. This affects Apache Impala versions >= 4.0.0.
- CVE-2017-5640Critical
In Apache Impala versions 2.7.0 to 2.8.0, a vulnerability was identified that allows a malicious process to impersonate an Impala daemon. This can lead to skipping authentication checks when Kerberos is enabled but TLS is not used.
- CVE-2026-93684Medium
An SQL user using Impala up to and including version 4.5.2 with only SELECT permission can put JavaScript in a table alias and make it run in another user's browser when that user opens the query plan in Impala's Web UI. This is stored XSS (CWE-79).
- CVE-2026-90466Medium
Path traversal of 'trusted_jar_paths' in Impala 4.5.2 allows an attacker-controlled JAR to be loaded via a relative path where the prefix matches a path specified in 'trusted_jar_paths'. The attack requires 'trusted_jar_paths' to have a non-empty value configured by the Impala admin.
- CVE-2026-65181High
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 to version 4.5.2.
- CVE-2026-57866High
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 configured in the hadoop.security.credential.provider.path property of core-site.xml. The secret's key must be known to the user.
- CVE-2026-54048Medium
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 have access to but that Impala does, and the response may be exposed via parsing error messages.
Original NVD description (English source)
Incorrect implementation of JWT/OAuth authentication in Impala executors in Apache Impala versions up to and including 4.5.2 which allows attacked to access resources served by the executor's webserver when that webserver is configured to accept JWT/OAuth tokens. Bearer token (JWT) signatures are not validated resulting in the webserver accepting any valid JWT. Users are recommended to either disable JWT/OAuth auth for Impala executors or upgrade to version 4.5.3, which fixes this issue.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS