title: 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 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.
affected:
{
defaultStatus: unaffected
product: Enterprise Server
vendor: Micro Focus
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 6.0 update 24, status: affected, version: 6.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 7.0 update 17, status: affected, version: 7.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 8.0 update 6, status: affected, version: 8.0, versionType: semver
}
{
defaultStatus: unaffected
product: Enterprise Test Server
vendor: Micro Focus
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 6.0 update 24, status: affected, version: 6.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 7.0 update 17, status: affected, version: 7.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 8.0 update 6, status: affected, version: 8.0, versionType: semver
}
{
defaultStatus: unaffected
product: Enterprise Developer
vendor: Micro Focus
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 6.0 update 24, status: affected, version: 6.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 7.0 update 17, status: affected, version: 7.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 8.0 update 6, status: affected, version: 8.0, versionType: semver
}
{
defaultStatus: unaffected
product: Visual COBOL
vendor: Micro Focus
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 6.0 update 24, status: affected, version: 6.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 7.0 update 17, status: affected, version: 7.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 8.0 update 6, status: affected, version: 8.0 , versionType: semver
}
{
defaultStatus: unaffected
product: COBOL Server
vendor: Micro Focus
versions:
lessThanOrEqual: 6.0 update 24, status: affected, version: 6.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 7.0 update 17, status: affected, version: 7.0, versionType: semver
lessThanOrEqual: 8.0 update 6, status: affected, version: 8.0 , versionType: semver
}
metrics:
cvssV3_1: [
attackComplexity: LOW
attackVector: NETWORK
availabilityImpact: NONE
baseScore: 7.1
baseSeverity: HIGH
confidentialityImpact: HIGH
integrityImpact: LOW
privilegesRequired: LOW
scope: UNCHANGED
userInteraction: NONE
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
version: 3.1
]
format: CVSS
scenarios: GENERAL
solutions:
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.