Removing ATMFD. DLL from a CA PIM 12.9 SP1 server

Products

• CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)

Issue/Introduction

ATMFD.DLL has been found to have a known vulnerability in Microsoft Windows servers, as stated in

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-warns-of-windows-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild/

and it should therefore be removed or mitigated. 

However it is necessary to know it these actions will have any impact on CA PIM

Environment

CA Priveged Identity Management (CA PIM) 12.9 on Windows

Resolution

CA PIM does not use ATMFD.DLL or any adobe component, so it is safe to remove it