CVE-2017-12172

Public on 2017-11-22
Modified on 2017-12-06
Description
Privilege escalation flaws were found in the 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.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
HAQM Linux 1 postgresql92 2017-12-05 ALAS-2017-931 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 postgresql93 2017-12-05 ALAS-2017-931 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 postgresql94 2017-12-05 ALAS-2017-931 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 postgresql95 2017-12-05 ALAS-2017-930 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 postgresql96 2017-12-05 ALAS-2017-930 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
HAQM Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 6.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H