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CVE-2016-6656

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

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

• Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life: through 4.3.9.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656

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