Local privilege escalation in Filr famtd

  • 7023727
  • 19-Feb-2019
  • 20-Feb-2019

Environment

Filr 3.0

Situation

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.

Resolution

This will be addressed by applying Filr 3.0 Security Update 6

Status

Security Alert

Additional Information

This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Matias Choren from SecureAuth

CVE-2019-3475