cve-2017-15097
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-27 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:50
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15097Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Red Hatpostgresql init script
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