CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6656

7.2 HIGH Published 2016-12-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-77

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.

Affected configurations

• pivotal software greenplum (<= 4.3.9.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness

References