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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Micro Focus Enterprise Server
Default version status: unaffected
6.0 to ≤ 6.0 update 24affected7.0 to ≤ 7.0 update 17affected8.0 to ≤ 8.0 update 6affected
Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server
Default version status: unaffected
6.0 to ≤ 6.0 update 24affected7.0 to ≤ 7.0 update 17affected8.0 to ≤ 8.0 update 6affected
Micro Focus Enterprise Developer
Default version status: unaffected
6.0 to ≤ 6.0 update 24affected7.0 to ≤ 7.0 update 17affected8.0 to ≤ 8.0 update 6affected
Micro Focus Visual COBOL
Default version status: unaffected
6.0 to ≤ 6.0 update 24affected7.0 to ≤ 7.0 update 17affected8.0 to ≤ 8.0 update 6affected
Micro Focus COBOL Server
Default version status: unaffected
6.0 to ≤ 6.0 update 24affected7.0 to ≤ 7.0 update 17affected8.0 to ≤ 8.0 update 6affected