Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-65321

CVE-2026-65321

laughingman7743 PyAthena — PyAthena SQL Injection via DefaultParameterFormatter DELETE/CTAS

Description · from the CVE record

PyAthena prior to 3.35.4 contains a sql injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary SQL by exploiting improper quote-escaping in DefaultParameterFormatter.format(), which routes DELETE and CTAS statements to the _escape_hive function that backslash-escapes single quotes rather than doubling them. Because Athena and Trino do not treat backslashes as escape characters inside string literals, attacker-supplied input such as a single quote followed by SQL syntax causes the parser to terminate the string literal prematurely, enabling data exfiltration via UNION SELECT, execution of destructive statements, and attacker-controlled CTAS destination and content.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
PyAthena≤ 3.35.33.35.4CNA

Scores by source

VulnCheck (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VulnCheck (CNA)9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/laughingman7743/PyAthenaadvisorygithub.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/security/advisories/GHSA-xwj5-g6cv-4r5cpatchgithub.com/pyathena-dev/PyAthena/commit/27901d12245ea722b3b4e211c60e2ade4e7c8efdwriteupvulncheck.com/advisories/pyathena-sql-injection-via-defaultparameterformatter-delete-ctaswriteuprahulkarne.com/#/cve/CVE-2026-65321refgithub.com/rahulreddykarne/CVE-2026-65321-pyathena