CVE-2026-73322
Apache Pinot: Incorrect authorization in the single-stage query engine allows reading unauthorized dimension tables via lookup()
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the single-stage query engine of Apache Pinot.
When broker access control is enabled, the single-stage query engine authorizes only the table named in the query's FROM clause. The lookup() transform function identifies its dimension table with a string literal argument rather than through the FROM clause, so that table was never included in the authorization check. An authenticated user who is authorized for at least one table can therefore read columns from any dimension table in the cluster, including tables they have no access to, and can retrieve arbitrary rows of it by supplying primary key values directly. Per-principal row-level security filters configured on the dimension table are likewise not applied.
The multi-stage query engine is not affected.
This issue affects Apache Pinot: through 1.5.1
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.6.0, which fixes this issue.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
6.5
Apache Pinot: Incorrect authorization in the single-stage query engine allows reading unauthorized dimension tables via lookup()
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the single-stage query engine of Apache Pinot.
When broker access control is enabled, the single-stage query engine authorizes only the table named in the query's FROM clause. The lookup() transform function identifies its dimension table with a string literal argument rather than through the FROM clause, so that table was never included in the authorization check. An authenticated user who is authorized for at least one table can therefore read columns from any dimension table in the cluster, including tables they have no access to, and can retrieve arbitrary rows of it by supplying primary key values directly. Per-principal row-level security filters configured on the dimension table are likewise not applied.
The multi-stage query engine is not affected.
This issue affects Apache Pinot: through 1.5.1
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.6.0, which fixes this issue.
- Record
CVE-2026-73322- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-06
EUVDEUVD-2026-114272
6.5
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the single-stage query engine of Apache Pinot.
When broker access control is enabled, the single-stage query engine authorizes only the table named in the query's FROM clause. The lookup() transform function identifies its dimension table with a string literal argument rather than through the FROM clause, so that table was never included in the authorization check. An authenticated user who is authorized for at least one table can therefore read columns from any dimension table in the cluster, including tables they have no access to, and can retrieve arbitrary rows of it by supplying primary key values directly. Per-principal row-level security filters configured on the dimension table are likewise not applied.
The multi-stage query engine is not affected.
This issue affects Apache Pinot: through 1.5.1
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.6.0, which fixes this issue.
- Record
EUVD-2026-114272- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-06
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vrfj-fvm6-cprg
6.5
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the single-stage query engine of Apache Pinot. When...
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the single-stage query engine of Apache Pinot.
When broker access control is enabled, the single-stage query engine authorizes only the table named in the query's FROM clause. The lookup() transform function identifies its dimension table with a string literal argument rather than through the FROM clause, so that table was never included in the authorization check. An authenticated user who is authorized for at least one table can therefore read columns from any dimension table in the cluster, including tables they have no access to, and can retrieve arbitrary rows of it by supplying primary key values directly. Per-principal row-level security filters configured on the dimension table are likewise not applied.
The multi-stage query engine is not affected.
This issue affects Apache Pinot: through 1.5.1
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.6.0, which fixes this issue.
- Record
GHSA-vrfj-fvm6-cprg- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-06
NVD
6.5
Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in the single-stage query engine of Apache Pinot.
When broker access control is enabled, the single-stage query engine authorizes only the table named in the query's FROM clause. The lookup() transform function identifies its dimension table with a string literal argument rather than through the FROM clause, so that table was never included in the authorization check. An authenticated user who is authorized for at least one table can therefore read columns from any dimension table in the cluster, including tables they have no access to, and can retrieve arbitrary rows of it by supplying primary key values directly. Per-principal row-level security filters configured on the dimension table are likewise not applied.
The multi-stage query engine is not affected.
This issue affects Apache Pinot: through 1.5.1
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.6.0, which fixes this issue.
- Record
CVE-2026-73322- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-06
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| severity | CVE List | |
| facts, severity | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-73322 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Apache Software Foundation Pinot, published October 30, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.29%, the 21st percentile. No source names a fixed version.