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CVE-2016-6656

N/A
Published: December 16, 2016 at 09:02 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGreenplum

Using Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life by N/A?

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Greenplum· Pivotal
95%
v ≤ 4.3.9.1

Remediation

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Patch and advisory references

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656

CVSS

6.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-77

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