CVE-2026-65321

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductPyAthena
PublishedAug 2, 2026
First seenAug 2, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-89SQL injection

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
laughingman7743 PyAthenav ≤ 3.35.3—

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