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.

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.

postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files

postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files

Ein lokaler oder entfernter authenitisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in PostgreSQL ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen, vertrauliche Daten einzusehen, Daten zu manipulieren, einen Denial of Serivce auszulösen oder Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen.