CVE-2017-15097

2018-07-2720:00:00

CWE-59

redhat

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.8%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "postgresql init script",
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "all"
      }
    ]
  }
]