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CVE-2017-15097

Date: July 27, 2018

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.

Severity Score

6.7

Related Resources (9)

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15097

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

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

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

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

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15097

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-15097

Severity Score

6.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.7
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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