CVE-2026-65321

PyAthena SQL Injection via DefaultParameterFormatter DELETE/CTAS

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Aug 2, 2026
Updated
Aug 6, 2026
Reserved
Jul 21, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.3 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PyAthenalaughingman7743
  • 3.35.3 and earlierAffected
  • 3.35.4Not affected

References

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