Claris International has resolved an issue of potentially allowing unauthorized access to records stored in databases hosted on FileMaker Server. This issue has been fixed in FileMaker Server 20.3.2 by validating transactions before replying to client requests.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: