CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-6656

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

An issue was discovered in Pivotal Greenplum before version 4.3.10.0 related to the creation of external tables using the GPHDFS protocol, which allows arbitrary commands to be injected into the system.

Risk Assessment

To exploit this vulnerability, the user must have superuser 'gpadmin' access or GPHDFS protocol permissions, which poses a risk of unauthorized access to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Pivotal Greenplum to version 4.3.10.0 or later and to restrict GPHDFS protocol access to trusted users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS