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CVE-2017-15097
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-59
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.
Affected products
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.4, 7.5
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15097
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15097
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