CVE-2017-15097 (GCVE-0-2017-15097)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-27 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:50
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Date Public
2018-07-27 00:00
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