CVE-2017-15097

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15097

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-07-27

Updated: 2023-02-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium