CVE-2017-15097

MediumCVSS 6.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.7/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 27, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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