Local privilege escalation in Filr famtd
CVE-2019-3475

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Micro Focus

Status
Filr
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 February 2019

What is CVE-2019-3475?

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.

Affected Version(s)

Filr 3 < 3.0 Security Update 6

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46450/
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://support.microfocus.com/kb/doc.php?id=7023727
x_refsource_MISC
https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=nZUCSDkvpxk~
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Matias Choren from SecureAuth.
.