FKIE_CVE-2016-6656

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-16 09:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:51
Severity
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security_alert@emc.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
security_alert@emc.comhttps://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pivotal_software greenplum *
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