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Fang-Yu Rao updated IMPALA-10986:
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> Specific privilege should be required to execute a UDF in Impala
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>                 Key: IMPALA-10986
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-10986
>             Project: IMPALA
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: Impala 4.0.0
>            Reporter: Fang-Yu Rao
>            Assignee: Fang-Yu Rao
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: ranger_policy_for_udfs_impala.png
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> We found that currently in Impala, to execute a UDF, a user only has to be 
> granted one of the 3 privileges in {{INSERT}}, {{SELECT}}, {{REFRESH}} on the 
> database (i.e., the {{VIEW_METADATA}} privilege on the database) where the 
> UDF was created. No additional privilege on the UDF is required. An example 
> of the policy added via Ranger's web UI is also provided here.
> The privilege request of {{VIEW_METADATA}} on the database is registered 
> within [analyzer.getDb(fnName_.getDb(), Privilege.VIEW_METADATA, 
> true)|https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/master/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/FunctionCallExpr.java#L557].
>  This is the reason why the user has to be granted the VIEW_METADATA 
> privilege on the database to be able to execute the UDF.
> Recall that the registration of the privilege mentioned above occurs in 
> [FunctionCallExpr#analyzeImpl()|https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/master/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/FunctionCallExpr.java#L531]
>  where Impala's frontend analyzes the given function in a query.
> I noticed in the same method above at 
> https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/master/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/FunctionCallExpr.java#L535,
>  Impala is able to determine whether the current function is a UDF or not. 
> Thus it seems that to fix the problem, we need to additionally register the 
> corresponding privilege request for a UDF (v.s. a built-in function) other 
> than the {{VIEW_METADATA}} privilege on the database.
> We should thus provide a fix for the issue.



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