CVE-2017-15097

highpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.005 · 45 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.54% (45th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

24 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.1–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v3.06.7mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.8 · impact 5.9

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 0.6 · impact 5.9

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59US

affected products (24)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Dell NetWorker <19.11.0.6all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker <19.12.0.1all versionscert_bundDE
IBM Security Verify Access 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.6.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:security_verify_access:10.0.0.0_-_10.0.6.1
Open Source CentOSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:centos:centos:-
Open Source PostgreSQL 10.1all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql:10.1
Open Source PostgreSQL 9.2.24all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql:9.2.24
Open Source PostgreSQL 9.3.20all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql:9.3.20
Open Source PostgreSQL 9.4.15all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql:9.4.15
Open Source PostgreSQL 9.5.10all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql:9.5.10
Open Source PostgreSQL 9.6.6all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:postgresql:postgresql:9.6.6
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Dell Networker< 19.11.0.6cert_bundDE
Dell Networker< 19.12.0.1cert_bundDE
Red Hat postgresql init script≤ allenisa_euvdEU
redhat enterprise linux desktop= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux server= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0143PostgreSQL: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2017-11-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler oder entfernter authenitisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in PostgreSQL ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen, vertrauliche Daten einzusehen, Daten zu manipulieren, einen Denial of Serivce auszulösen oder Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-27modified 2026-06-17

references (20)

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