Medium severity · published Jul 20, 2023
CVE-2023-32265
A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the Enterprise Server Common Web Administration (ESCWA) component used in Enterprise Server, Enterprise Test Server,…
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CS
Cobol Server · Microfocus
6.0; 7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
ED
Enterprise Developer · Microfocus
6.0; 7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
ES
Enterprise Server · Microfocus
6.0; 7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
ET
Enterprise Test Server · Microfocus
6.0; 7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
VC
Visual Cobol · Microfocus
6.0; 7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
CS
Cobol Server
Microfocus
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