Published: 01/03/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1

VMScore: 695

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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# Exploit Title: PostgreSQL 94-053 - Privilege Escalation # Date: 2017-10-11 # Exploit Author: Johannes Segitz # Vendor Homepage: bugzillasusecom/show_bugcgi?id=1062722 # Software Link: - # Version: Before postgresql-init-94-0531 # Tested on: SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 # CVE : CVE-2017-14798 #!/bin/sh # don't use spaces or oth ...

PostgreSQL version 94-053 suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability ...

CWE-362 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45184/https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062722 https://www.suse.com/de-de/security/cve/CVE-2017-14798/http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2017-November/003420.html https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45184/

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