CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14798

7.0 HIGH Published 2018-03-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-61

Description

A race condition in the postgresql init script could be used by attackers able to access the postgresql account to escalate their privileges to root.

Affected configurations

• postgresql postgresql (< 9.4-0.5.3.1) • suse suse linux enterprise server 11

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness

References