High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Dec 16, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-6656
CVE-2016-6656
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.
Patches
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Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954nvd
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