CVE-2016-6656

7.2 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.2) in pivotal software greenplum. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.2 high

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

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-77
Published: 2016-12-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pivotal_software:greenplum

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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