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CVE-2017-15097
Privilege escalation flaws were found in the Red Hat initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.54%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · postgresql init script
- affected all
References (6)
- RHSA-2017:3402 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:3403 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:3405 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15097 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1039983 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:3404 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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