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CVE-2016-6656

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 1.11% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-12-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
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CVE
CVE-2016-6656
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
1.11%

Original NVD 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.