Vulnerability · Published Jul 20, 2023 · Assigned by OpenText
CVE-2023-32265Mitigations and availability of updates relating to security vulnerability in ESCWA component CVE-2023-32265.
High 7.1
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in COBOL Server from Micro Focus. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Micro Focus | Enterprise Server | 6.0 – through 6.0 update 247.0 – through 7.0 update 178.0 – through 8.0 update 6 |
| Micro Focus | Enterprise Test Server | 6.0 – through 6.0 update 247.0 – through 7.0 update 178.0 – through 8.0 update 6 |
| Micro Focus | Enterprise Developer | 6.0 – through 6.0 update 247.0 – through 7.0 update 178.0 – through 8.0 update 6 |
| Micro Focus | Visual COBOL | 6.0 – through 6.0 update 247.0 – through 7.0 update 178.0 – through 8.0 update 6 |
| Micro Focus | COBOL Server | 6.0 – through 6.0 update 247.0 – through 7.0 update 178.0 – through 8.0 update 6 |