Security Bulletin: Use of Arrays.equals() in LlapSignerImpl in Apache Hive to compare message signatures allows attacker to forge a valid signature , which affects IBM watsonx.data

Summary Use of Arrays.equals in LlapSignerImpl in Apache Hive to compare message signatures allows attacker to forge a valid signature for an arbitrary message byte by byte. The attacker should be an authorized user of the product to perform this attack. Users are recommended to upgrade to versio...

PT-2025-2366

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Hive versions prior to 4.0.0 Description The issue arises from the use of Arrays.equals in LlapSignerImpl to compare message signatures, allowing an attacker to forge a valid signature for an arbitrary message byte by byte. This can occ...