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CVE-2016-6656

An issue was discovered in Pivotal Greenplum before 4.3.10.0. Creation of external tables using GPHDFS protocol has a vulnerability…

High7.2EPSS 1.1%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
dell

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By dell

  2. · 4 months later

    Published

  3. · 8 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-6656, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High7.2CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

Affected products

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

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

References (2)

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