CVE-2023-32265

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

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 20, 2023 at 01:01 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:58 AM UTC
5 products affected across 1 vendorEnterprise DeveloperEnterprise ServerCOBOL Server

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.0 ≤ v ≤ 6.0 update 247.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.0 update 178.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.0 update 66.07.08.0
6.0 ≤ v ≤ 6.0 update 247.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.0 update 178.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.0 update 66.07.08.0
6.0 ≤ v ≤ 6.0 update 247.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.0 update 178.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.0 update 66.07.08.0
6.0 ≤ v ≤ 6.0 update 247.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.0 update 178.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.0 update 66.07.08.0
6.0 ≤ v ≤ 6.0 update 247.0 ≤ v ≤ 7.0 update 178.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.0 update 66.07.08.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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