CVE-2017-15097

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 Medium 6.7
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-15097
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-07-27T20:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-12T23:28:25
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-59 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • HIGH
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.7
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 0.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039983 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3402 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3403 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3404 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15097
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508985
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15097 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15097
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15097
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:11:19 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 10:36:59 2018-07-27T20:29Z 2018-07-27T20:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 10:36:59 2019-10-09T23:24:12 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 10:36:59 Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 15:07:44 2023-02-02T14:16:52 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 15:07:45 References updated
2023-02-13 01:08:20 2023-02-12T23:28:25 CVE Modified Date updated