ESCWA Authenticated Credential Exposure in Micro Focus Enterprise Server
CVE-2023-32265 Published on July 20, 2023

Mitigations and availability of updates relating to security vulnerability in ESCWA component 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, 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 usersâ 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.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-32265 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
LOW
Availability Impact:
NONE

Products Associated with CVE-2023-32265

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Micro Focus Cobol Server
 
Micro Focus Visual Cobol
 
Micro Focus Enterprise Developer
 
Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server
 
Micro Focus Enterprise Server
 

Affected Versions

Micro Focus Enterprise Server: Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server: Micro Focus Enterprise Developer: Micro Focus Visual COBOL: Micro Focus COBOL Server:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.16%
Percentile
37.23%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.