CVE-2016-6656 (GCVE-0-2016-6656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-16 09:02 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:36
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Pivotal Greenplum before 4.3.10.0. Creation of external tables using GPHDFS protocol has a vulnerability whereby arbitrary commands can be injected into the system. In order to exploit this vulnerability the user must have superuser 'gpadmin' access to the system or have been granted GPHDFS protocol permissions in order to create a GPHDFS external table.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Code injection vulnerability
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life Affected: Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life
Date Public
2016-12-16 00:00
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