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Using FME(R) 2021.2.5.0 (20220331 - Build 21816 - WIN64)  desktop on windows PRO build 2009.1766 65g RAM, 6 cores, experiences massive CPU drain when running a LIDAR density analysis out to raster via the custom transformer as in article - Calculating Point Cloud Density (safe.com)The two step tiler seems to trigger a Windows security scan when using the FME_TEMP directory as FME writes the (many) temporary cache ffs files down to disk when demanding a 1m high res raster result. The security kicks in and the CPU starts skipping up to 80%+ which drags the performance way down on large LIDAR file sets. Setting the raster res lower (10m) doesn't seem to trigger the same issue The FME_TEMP directory cannot be included in the security white list (corporate policy settings only - as each workstation /individual may have a different FME_TEMP location), and therefore although FME and the install directories are white-listed per FME Community (safe.com), the FME_TEMP directory is subject to

I have created an encoded password user parameter and used it with the job submitter, but if the job submitter returns an error, the password is decrypted and shown in the log, as seen in the screenshots below.  

Hi,I have a FME workbench, so i have to use it within my organization and i want to restrict it to outsiders based on domain name or in any possible way. how can i do this ?

Dear community,Upcoming June the 14th Microsoft DCOM will get ‘hardened’ by a update. Therefore I would like to know if the DCOM-protocol is used in any way within FME and if anyone knows this update could affect FME server. If this is the case, it is necessary to test the new hardening. For more information on this update: (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5004442-manage-changes-for-windows-dcom-server-security-feature-bypass-cve-2021-26414-f1400b52-c141-43d2-941e-37ed901c769c) Used FME server versions: FME server 2018.1 & 2021.1

Hello Our security scan has detected a vulnerability against the version of Apache Tomcat installed.The Web server installed on the remote host is prior to 9.0.48. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the fixed_in_apache_tomcat_9.0.48_security-9 advisory. Tomcat Release-Notes: 9.0.44FME Server Build: FME Server 2021.1.1 / Build 21619 - win64 ThanksSameer

A serious security alert (CVE-2022-21724) was announced for the PostgreSQL JDBC driver on February 2, 2022. We need to upgrade PostgresSQL JDBC driver to 42.2.25 and above to remediate it.  We have identified total 4 PostgresSQL JDBC drivers in FME Server and FME Desktop:[FME Server Root]\\Utilities\\tomcat\\lib\\postgresql-42.2.24.jar[FME Server Root]\\Utilities\\jdbc\\postgresql-42.2.24.jar[FME Server Root]\\Server\\fme\\plugins\\postgresql-42.2.16.jar[FME Desktop Root]\\FME\\plugins\\postgresql-42.2.16.jar Is there any patch available to remediate this vulnerability in those products? Or can we just replace those drivers with the required version?

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {228826AF-02E1-4226-A9E0-99A855E455A6} and APPID {2FD08A73-D1F1-43EB-B888-24C2496F95FD} to the user <user> SID (S-1-5-21-73586283-1409082233-725345543-564895) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Is FME Server affected by the recent vulnerability discovered in Spring Core? https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/new-spring4shell-vulnerability-confirmed-what-it-is-and-how-to-be-prepared

I have a working Postman script for an OAuth2 connection.When I look at the raw headers it shows that it sends the following headers:Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedAuthorization: Basic QjIzRkI3RUU5RTZDRZZZQTRCRDJGNjVEOUM5ZZZxNjE6QzAzM0ZDOTU0RjM5NDQ1Qjg2RjdCOUQ1QzlGQzQ2MDYwM0Q1QkUwNEIzMEE3ZZZDMzFCMTI5NzM5M0MxQUMwRQ==User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.29.0Accept: */*Cache-Control: no-cachePostman-Token: a8126467-b10d-4a59-b116-f8a6d1160aa8Host: projectlocation.relaticsonline.comAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, brConnection: keep-aliveContent-Length: 182Cookie: SESSION_START_COOKIENAME_29C5C999-84D0-4D23-A8F0-F888A8C64C78=trueBut if I add a new Webservice with the OAuth2 template in FME it looks like it is sending:https://projectlocation.relaticsonline.com/oauth2/token redirect_uri=https://localhost/client_id=12345567890client_secret=ASDFJKLgrant_type=authorisation_codecode=[responseCode] Accept=application/jsonContent-Language=en-USContent-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencodedI

We have a use case where we need to implement a webhook using FME. This will be called by a partner application.This webhook has a predefined URI (in partner application side) like:https://fmeserver/repo/worskapce1.fmw?attr=?attr2=?Names of parameters cannot be changed and partner application is not willing to update the webhook to pass security token in the header. We are planning to do security by only whitelisting the ip addresses of the partner application. In this case, how we do call the FME workspace? Everytime I try to call my workspace, it returns an following error"401-Unauthorized. The request has not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the Target resource" Is there no way to call FME workspaces without passing tokens in the header of the call?Is there a way to change the name of the token attribute in the header to something else? I can repurpose attr2 for this and provide a static token to the application.

Currently we are usen FME Desktop 2020.1. In the webconnection we have made connections to our ESRI platform (Arcgis Enterprise). SO when using a workbench data can be extracted from our arcgis enterprise portal. Is it possible to secure the data stored in a web connection in FME Desktop. We would like to prevent anyone who has gained acces to one of our account to also use the web connections to reach the account data stored in the web connection.

Hello all, Our IT department has the policy to remove all the vulnarible Log4j related files from the systems which came from a server scan.  We have a FME server 2020.1 with engine 2020.2.5The scan gives the following files: C:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Server\\fme\\plugins\\activemq-all-5.6.0.jarC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Server\\fme\\plugins\\log4j-1.2.16.jarC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Server\\FMEEngineUpgrade\\plugins\\activemq-all-5.6.0.jarC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Server\\FMEEngineUpgrade\\plugins\\log4j-1.2.16.jarC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Server\\lib\\log4j-1.2.14.jarC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Utilities\\tomcat\\webapps\\fmeapiv4.warC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Utilities\\tomcat\\webapps\\fmeapiv4\\WEB-INF\\lib\\logback-classic-1.2.3.jarC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Utilities\\tomcat\\webapps\\fmerest.war","WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jarC:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Utilities\\tomcat\\webapps\\fmerest\\WEB-INF\\lib\\log4j-1.2.14.jar What would be the e

Hi,We have installed a FME Server 2020.1.1.1 with a 2020.2.5.1 engine.Our security department has te following questions : •            Are there plans to upgrade the Java version to the newest version? •            Is the installation of Adobe Reader/Writer a part of the global installation?•            Is the installation of Adobe Flash a part of the global installation? Hopefully somebodey can answer the questions. with kind regards, John van der KleijnFunctional manager GISMunicipality Eindhoven

Hi, I found remote command execution and directory traversal vulnerabilities on FME Server 2020.2.3.How can I send you the exploit ? Do you have a mail dedicated to security alerts ?Regards

Hey all, seems a new vulnerability is currently being exploited across the wider network. From what @Todd Davis​ and myself have determined, it seems it will effect FME Server. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44228https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/minecraft-and-other-apps-face-serious-threat-from-new-code-execution-bug/ Further investigation seems to show that FME Server 2021.1 and on wards contain 2.13. Versions post 2.10 can include the following parameter to mitigate the exploit:‐Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=True https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-warning-new-zero-day-in-the-log4j-java-library-is-already-being-exploited/

We are using FME Server 2021.0.0.1. In order to be safe against Security Vulnerability Reported Against log4j, do we need to update our current version to 2021.2 ? or should we stay on our current version and wait for the 2022 version?

I would like to know if I could compromise my microsoft account (hacker accessing my One Drive files and microsoft account) by putting my connection credentials for OneDrive in a script on the FME Cloud that is then accessed via a Server App.

We have created a GCP Service Account. Although we got the File based Cred/Python ingestion to work, we are not happy with that approach as far as security risks. Is there a way to establish a Web Connection to GCP BigQuery using a Service Account (FME 2019.2)? 

We have an issue where the license server (flex) is going through loads of ports which are closed before finding an open one, as a result everytime we try to run FME it hangs for about 30s waiting for the license ping back, is there anything we can do to try to consistently use an open port? We dont seem to have issues with other licenses that are hosted on that server.

You can set security on database/web connections but the admin user has the permission to view, use and execute by default. Assume that a user knows the name of a secure database connection on the server and use that same name in his workbench as a private parameter with different parameters but with the same as the secure connection on the server. When the user upload his workbench to the server, he will not be able to execute the workbench on the server because he doesn't have the permission to use the database connection on the server. But he asks to schedule his workbench and the admin user configures the schedule for this workbench. From that moment the workbench is able to use the database connection on the server because the admin user has the permission to use the secure database connection.A solution could be that the schedule is configured by another user than admin. Is there any other way to handle this security issue?We are running FME Server 2020.1.3 and our engines ar

I´m executin this command to upload the FME license: curl -X POST "https://localhost:443/licensing/license?filetype=fmelic" -H "Authorization: fmetoken token=****" -H "Content-type: application/octet-stream" -H "Accept: application/json" --data "@fme_license.fmelic" But i got this error:<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>HTTP Status 404 – Not Found</title><style type="text/css">body {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;} h1, h2, h3, b {color:white;background-color:#525D76;} h1 {font-size:22px;} h2 {font-size:16px;} h3 {font-size:14px;} p {font-size:12px;} a {color:black;} .line {height:1px;background-color:#525D76;border:none;}</style></head><body><h1>HTTP Status 404 – Not Found</h1><hr class="line" /><p><b>Type</b> Status Report</p><p><b>Message</b> The requested resource [/licensing/license] is not available</p><p><b>Description&

I would like to know what TLS version is supported for FME 2020 desktop.

I have a copy of FME Server for Linux. After looking at the documentation, can I integrate Windows Active Directory/LDAP from a Windows Domain Controller? I didn't see any RHEL 7 'linux' based configurations in the guide...

We get the error "Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available." when running a workspace on FME Server but the same workspace run from FME Desktop is okay. FME Desktop 2020.2.1.0 (20201130 - Build 20806 - WIN64)FME Server 2020.2 Build 20787 - win64 ```2021-1-26 19:19:35 | ArcGIS Feature Service Reader: Requesting metadata for Feature Service at 'http://mapservices.gov.yk.ca/arcgis/rest/services/GeoYukon/GY_Biophysical/MapServer'2021-1-26 19:19:48 | ArcGIS Feature Service Reader: Could not connect to server. Check that you are connected to the internet and that no firewall is blocking outbound connections. The error was 'HTTPSConnectionPool(host='mapservices.gov.yk.ca', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /arcgis/rest/services/GeoYukon/GY_Biophysical/MapServer?f=json (Caused by SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available."))' ```Digging around on Stack Overflow and similar s

I have a customer that 4-5 times a year need to run an fme workspace on an offline computer. This computer can not be connected to any network at all.They have floating licenses and now would like to borrow a license without connecting to client to the license server.Is this possible?