CVE-2023-32265

HIGH

Enterprise Server - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 44.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (15)
microfocus/cobol_server 6.0
microfocus/cobol_server 7.0
microfocus/cobol_server 8.0
microfocus/enterprise_developer 6.0
microfocus/enterprise_developer 7.0
microfocus/enterprise_developer 8.0
microfocus/enterprise_server 6.0
microfocus/enterprise_server 7.0
microfocus/enterprise_server 8.0
microfocus/enterprise_test_server 6.0
... and 5 more
Published Jul 20, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026