Mitigations and availability of updates relating to security vulnerability in ESCWA component CVE-2023-32265.

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.45% · top 60% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.

Affected products

• Micro Focus · Enterprise Server

  • affected 6.0 – ≤ 6.0 update 24
  • affected 7.0 – ≤ 7.0 update 17
  • affected 8.0 – ≤ 8.0 update 6

• Micro Focus · Enterprise Test Server

  • affected 6.0 – ≤ 6.0 update 24
  • affected 7.0 – ≤ 7.0 update 17
  • affected 8.0 – ≤ 8.0 update 6

• Micro Focus · Enterprise Developer

  • affected 6.0 – ≤ 6.0 update 24
  • affected 7.0 – ≤ 7.0 update 17
  • affected 8.0 – ≤ 8.0 update 6

• Micro Focus · Visual COBOL

  • affected 6.0 – ≤ 6.0 update 24
  • affected 7.0 – ≤ 7.0 update 17
  • affected 8.0 – ≤ 8.0 update 6

• Micro Focus · COBOL Server

  • affected 6.0 – ≤ 6.0 update 24
  • affected 7.0 – ≤ 7.0 update 17
  • affected 8.0 – ≤ 8.0 update 6

What to do

Solution: Enterprise Server, Enterprise Test Server, Enterprise Developer, Visual COBOL, and COBOL Server Versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 all include a fix for this issue in their latest released patch updates.

References (1)

• https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000019323?language=en_US (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 21 Oct 2024, 13:05 UTC.