cve-2017-14798
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-01 19:00
Modified
2024-09-16 19:20
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
local privilege escalation in SUSE postgresql init script
References
Impacted products
▼ | Vendor | Product |
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suse | postgresql-init |
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