PyAthena SQL Injection via DefaultParameterFormatter DELETE/CTAS
48Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 9.3epss 0.4%
from disclosure to weapon1 days
Published on NVDAug 2
1st PoC+1d
exploitation probability
0.4%top 64% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
laughingman7743 · PyAthenapublic PoCs found — 1
githubgithub.com/rahulreddykarne/CVE-2026-65321-pyathena★ 0⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthenahttps://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/security/advisories/GHSA-xwj5-g6cv-4r5chttps://github.com/pyathena-dev/PyAthena/commit/27901d12245ea722b3b4e211c60e2ade4e7c8efdhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pyathena-sql-injection-via-defaultparameterformatter-delete-ctas