2016-12-16 09:02:00
dell
PUBLISHED
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.