Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6656

7.2
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date December 16, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory