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.
This vulnerability carries a HIGH severity rating with a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.1, indicating it can be exploited remotely over the network with relatively low complexity without requiring user interaction requiring only low-level privileges . The vulnerability impacts confidentiality (data exposure), limited integrity, for affected systems. Impacting 5 products from microfocus, from microfocus, from microfocus and 2 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Reported in 2023, this vulnerability emerged during an era marked by increased sophistication in supply chain attacks, cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) security challenges. Security practices during this period emphasized zero-trust architectures, container security, and API protection.
2023-07-20T14:15:11.193
2024-11-21T08:03:00.267
Modified
CVSSv3.1: 7.1 (HIGH)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | microfocus | cobol_server | 6.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | cobol_server | 7.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | cobol_server | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_developer | 6.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_developer | 7.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_developer | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_server | 6.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_server | 7.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_server | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_test_server | 6.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_test_server | 7.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | enterprise_test_server | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | visual_cobol | 6.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | visual_cobol | 7.0 | Yes |
| Application | microfocus | visual_cobol | 8.0 | Yes |
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