CVE-2026-42809: Polaris Iceberg Location Gate Missing Metadata Key

Apache Polaris IcebergCatalog location-change validation gate compares USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY but omits USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY. A TableMetadata update that only changes write.metadata.path will pass through this gate without running validateLocationsForTableLike, validateNoLocationOverlap, or validateMetadataFileInTableDir

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Java

greprules fetch cve-2026-42809-polaris-iceberg-location-gate-missing-metadata-key --engine opengrep

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License: Apache-2.0
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