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CVE-2019-3475: Local privilege escalation in Filr famtd

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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 products

• Micro Focus Filr: 3.0, 3.0-update_1, 3.0-update_2, 3.0-update_3, 3.0-update_4, 3.0-update_5

References

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

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