CVE-2017-15097CWE-59

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the Red Hat initialization scripts of PostgreSQL

Medium · published July 27, 2018

CVSS v3.0
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
44.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00541 · 44.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Published
2018-07-27T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 JUL 20:00Z
    Privilege escalation flaws were found in the Red Hat initialization scripts of PostgreSQL
    cvelistv5