CVE-2017-15097 (GCVE-0-2017-15097)
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
CWE
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
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15097 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat postgresql init script Version: all
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