CVE-2017-15097

CVE-2017-15097 describes privilege escalation vulnerabilities within Red Hat's PostgreSQL initialization scripts, affecting various Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions. An attacker with existing postgres user access could leverage these flaws to gain root privileges on the server. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 6.7), it requires high privileges (PR:H) but has a low attack complexity (AC:L) and local attack vector (AV:L), leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.