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Unscored CVE-2016-6656 EUVD-2016-7559GHSA-xf4j-p5gp-h24h

An issue was discovered in Pivotal Greenplum before 4.3.10.0. Creation of external tables using GPHDFS protocol has a vulnerability whereby…

Published Dec 16, 2016 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by dell

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life —

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