Description
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 (2)
Core 2
Core References
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
Scores
CVSS v3
7.2
EPSS
0.0111
EPSS Percentile
61.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-77
Status
published
Products (2)
n/a/Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life
Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life
pivotal_software/greenplum
< 4.3.9.1
Published
Dec 16, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026