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Micro Focus Access Manager Information Leakage Vulnerability

Micro Focus · Micro Focus Access Manager

CVSS 7.5 EPSS 26% no public exploit indexed Fix deadline passed 17 November 2021

What it is

Micro Focus Access Manager contains an information leakage vulnerability resulting from a SAML service provider redirection issue when the Assertion Consumer Service URL is used.

Why we say that

  • CISA's federal remediation deadline (2021-11-17) has passed
  • Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue

Every line above comes from a named public source. Where the evidence is thin, we say so rather than inventing confidence — see methodology.

What to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

What it costs when this goes wrong

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