FKIE_CVE-2019-3475

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-02-20 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:35
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the famtd component of Micro Focus Filr 3.0 allows a local attacker authenticated as a low privilege user to escalate to root. This vulnerability affects all versions of Filr 3.x prior to Security Update 6.
References
security@opentext.comhttps://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=nZUCSDkvpxk~
security@opentext.comhttps://support.microfocus.com/kb/doc.php?id=7023727
security@opentext.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46450/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=nZUCSDkvpxk~
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.microfocus.com/kb/doc.php?id=7023727
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46450/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microfocus filr 3.0
microfocus filr 3.0
microfocus filr 3.0
microfocus filr 3.0
microfocus filr 3.0
microfocus filr 3.0
suse suse_linux_enterprise_server 11
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