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high 7.8

CVE-2019-3475 json

Local privilege escalation in Filr famtd

published 2019-02-20 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-13113

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Patch / fix

  • Micro Focus Filr 3.0 Security Update 6

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-46450)

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-46450 Micro Focus Filr 3.4.0.217 - Path Traversal / Local Privilege Escalation webapps, 2019-02-22

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Micro Focus Filr

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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