CVE-2020-1926
Timing attack in Cookie signature verification
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apache
Description
Apache Hive cookie signature verification used a non constant time comparison which is known to be vulnerable to timing attacks. This could allow recovery of another users cookie signature. The issue was addressed in Apache Hive 2.3.8
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Hive
- affected Apache Hive – < 2.3.8
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.hive:hiveGHSA-54g4-5cf6-hjp3 (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-22708 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd186eedff68102ba1e68059a808101c5aa587e11542c7dcd26e7b9d7%40%3Cuser.hive.apache.org%3E (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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-54g4-5cf6-hjp3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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