CVE-2016-6656 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.2