Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6656

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-16 09:02:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:36:29
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State PUBLISHED

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.