CVE-2016-6656
Creation of external tables using GPHDFS protocol has a vulnerability whereby arbitrary commands can be injected into the system.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.11%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.0
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.11% probability · 64th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-77
- Affected
- pivotal software/greenplum
- Source
- security_alert@emc.com
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94954
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6656Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.