CVE-2023-32265

moderate-risk
Published 2023-07-20

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the Enterprise Server Common Web Administration (ESCWA) component used in Enterprise Server, Enterprise Test Server, Enterprise Developer, Visual COBOL, and COBOL Server. An attacker would need to be authenticated into ESCWA to attempt to exploit this vulnerability. As described in the hardening guide in the product documentation, other mitigations including restricting network access to ESCWA and restricting users’ permissions in the Micro Focus Directory Server also reduce the exposure to this issue. Given the right conditions this vulnerability could be exploited to expose a service account password. The account corresponding to the exposed credentials usually has limited privileges and, in many cases would only be useful for extracting details of other user accounts and similar information.

Do I need to act?

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0.20% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.1/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (15)

Cobol Server
Cobol Server
Cobol Server
Enterprise Developer
Enterprise Developer
Enterprise Developer
Enterprise Server
Enterprise Server
Enterprise Server
Enterprise Test Server
Enterprise Test Server
Enterprise Test Server
Visual Cobol
Visual Cobol
Visual Cobol

Affected Vendors

44
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 25/34 · High
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 18/34 · Moderate