CVE-2017-15097

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jul 27, 2018
Updated
Aug 5, 2024
Reserved
Oct 8, 2017

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Description

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the Red Hat initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.06.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
postgresql init scriptRed Hat
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References

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