Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-15097

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.

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Affected products

Red Hat/PostgreSQLllm-create
Red Hat/PostgreSQL initialization scriptsllm-create
Red Hat/postgresql init scriptv5
Range: all

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References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405nvdThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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