CVSS 3.1
9.1 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-31131
Critical (9.1) in vmware greenplum database. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Greenplum Database (GPDB) is an open source data warehouse based on PostgreSQL. In versions prior to 6.22.3 Greenplum Database used an unsafe methods to extract tar files within GPPKGs. greenplum-db is vulnerable to path traversal leading to arbitrary file writes. An attacker can use this vulnerability to overwrite data or system files potentially leading to crash or malfunction of the system. Any files which are accessible to the running process are at risk. All users are requested to upgrade to Greenplum Database version 6.23.2 or higher. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 54% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:greenplum_database
References
- https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/commit/1ec4affbba7c9745f64edbd80a6680ad29b09471
- https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/security/advisories/GHSA-hgm9-2q42-c7f3
- https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/commit/1ec4affbba7c9745f64edbd80a6680ad29b09471
- https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/security/advisories/GHSA-hgm9-2q42-c7f3