CVE-2016-6656

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.
Command Injection
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
7.2 HIGH
NETWORK
LOW
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
dellCNA
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CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 61%
VendorProductVersion
pivotal_softwaregreenplum
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≤ 4.3.9.1
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= Vulnerable software versions
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656