{"id":"CVE-2023-32265","aliases":["EUVD-2023-36519","GHSA-36c2-gx9g-q34j"],"status":"published","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.\nAn 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.\n\nGiven 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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00454,"percentile":0.39637,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"published":"2023-07-20T13:01:38Z","modified":"2026-06-17T05:58:26Z","products":[{"vendor":"github","product":"enterprise server"},{"vendor":"micro focus","product":"cobol server"},{"vendor":"micro focus","product":"enterprise developer"},{"vendor":"micro focus","product":"enterprise server"},{"vendor":"micro focus","product":"enterprise test server"},{"vendor":"micro focus","product":"visual cobol"},{"vendor":"microfocus","product":"cobol_server"},{"vendor":"microfocus","product":"enterprise_developer"},{"vendor":"microfocus","product":"enterprise_server"},{"vendor":"microfocus","product":"enterprise_test_server"},{"vendor":"microfocus","product":"visual_cobol"}],"references":[{"url":"https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000019323?language=en_US","tags":["x_transferred","Vendor Advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32265"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-36c2-gx9g-q34j"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2023-32265","title":"Mitigations and availability of updates relating to security vulnerability in ESCWA component CVE-2023-32265.","description":"\nA 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.\nAn 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.\n\nGiven 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.\n\n","status":"published","published":"2023-07-20T13:01:38.269Z","modified":"2024-10-21T13:05:58.689Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:35:29.381004Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2023-36519","description":"\nA 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.\nAn 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.\n\nGiven 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.\n\n","status":"published","published":"2023-07-20T13:01:38Z","modified":"2024-10-21T13:05:58Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T00:27:32.038051Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-36c2-gx9g-q34j","title":"\nA potential security vulnerability has been identified in the Enterprise Server Common Web...","description":"\nA 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.\nAn 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.\n\nGiven 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.\n\n","status":"published","published":"2023-07-20T18:33:43Z","modified":"2024-04-04T06:17:47Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:56:40.949889Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2023-32265","description":"\nA 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.\nAn 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.\n\nGiven 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.\n\n","status":"published","published":"2023-07-20T14:15:11.193Z","modified":"2026-06-17T05:58:26.783Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:08:17.044696Z"}]}}