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CVE-2016-6656 An issue was discovered in Pivotal Greenplum before 4.3.10.0

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 and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Pivotal Greenplum 4.3.0.0 to 4.3.9.1 and older versions that are end of life Versions not published
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