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

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.45% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Jul 20, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 39th percentile
CWE
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Action score

26

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
6.5
CNA · OpenText
7.1
0.6 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
microfocuscobol server
microfocusenterprise developer
microfocusenterprise server
microfocusenterprise test server
microfocusvisual cobol

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • microfocus cobol server6.0
  • microfocus cobol server7.0
  • microfocus cobol server8.0
  • microfocus enterprise developer6.0
  • microfocus enterprise developer7.0
  • microfocus enterprise developer8.0
  • microfocus enterprise server6.0
  • microfocus enterprise server7.0
  • microfocus enterprise server8.0
  • microfocus enterprise test server6.0
  • microfocus enterprise test server7.0
  • microfocus enterprise test server8.0
  • microfocus visual cobol6.0
  • microfocus visual cobol7.0
  • microfocus visual cobol8.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (OpenText). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Micro Focus COBOL Server

    • 6.0 and later · up to and including 6.0 update 24affected · semver
    • 7.0 and later · up to and including 7.0 update 17affected · semver
    • 8.0 and later · up to and including 8.0 update 6affected · semver

  • Micro Focus Enterprise Developer

    • 6.0 and later · up to and including 6.0 update 24affected · semver
    • 7.0 and later · up to and including 7.0 update 17affected · semver
    • 8.0 and later · up to and including 8.0 update 6affected · semver

  • Micro Focus Enterprise Server

    • 6.0 and later · up to and including 6.0 update 24affected · semver
    • 7.0 and later · up to and including 7.0 update 17affected · semver
    • 8.0 and later · up to and including 8.0 update 6affected · semver

  • Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server

    • 6.0 and later · up to and including 6.0 update 24affected · semver
    • 7.0 and later · up to and including 7.0 update 17affected · semver
    • 8.0 and later · up to and including 8.0 update 6affected · semver

  • Micro Focus Visual COBOL

    • 6.0 and later · up to and including 6.0 update 24affected · semver
    • 7.0 and later · up to and including 7.0 update 17affected · semver
    • 8.0 and later · up to and including 8.0 update 6affected · semver

Same product

microfocus: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2023-4501Authentication bypass in OpenText (Micro Focus) Enterprise Server
    39Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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