CVE-2017-15097: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.