A vulnerability exists in FlexNet Manager Suite releases 2015 R2 SP3 and earlier (including FlexNet Manager Platform 9.2 and earlier) that affects the inventory gathering components and can be exploited by local users to perform certain actions with elevated privileges on the local system.

An error when handling certain external commands and services related to the FlexNet Inventory Agent and FlexNet Beacon of the Flexera Software FlexNet Manager Suite 2017 before 2017 R1 and 2014 R3 through 2016 R1 SP1 can be exploited to gain elevated privileges.