PyAthena SQL Injection via DefaultParameterFormatter DELETE/CTAS
Published Aug 2, 2026
9.3
CRITICALCVSS 4.0
EPSS 0.77%
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.
Affected products
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- Version 0StatusaffectedConstraints<=3.35.3
- Version 3.35.4StatusunaffectedConstraints-
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | |||||||||
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| Laughingman7743 | PyAthena | affected |
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Remediation
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References (6)
- https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena product
- https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/security/advisories/GHSA-xwj5-g6cv-4r5c vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/pyathena-dev/PyAthena/commit/27901d12245ea722b3b4e211c60e2ade4e7c8efd patch
- https://github.com/rahulreddykarne/CVE-2026-65321-pyathena related
- https://rahulkarne.com/#/cve/CVE-2026-65321 technical-description
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pyathena-sql-injection-via-defaultparameterformatter-delete-ctas third-party-advisory
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