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CVE-2016-7489

CVE-2016-7489 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

Teradata Virtual Machine Community Edition v15.10's perl script /opt/teradata/gsctools/bin/t2a.pl creates files in /tmp in an insecure manner, this may lead to elevated code execution.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, larry_cashdollar

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

4%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

teradata

virtual_machine_community_edition

CVSS base

Unscored

no source published a base score

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

teradata

Products (1)

virtual machine community edition

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.

  • Search application, proxy, and WAF logs for requests touching /opt/teradata/gsctools/bin/t2a.pl, /tmp.

References

2 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.