Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7423

Title: Microfocus Enterprise Developer Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7423.

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Aug 21, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.22%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7423: A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) vulnerability in esfadmingui in Micro Focus Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Server 2.3, 2.3 Update 1 before Hotfix 8, and 2.3 Update 2 before Hotfix 9 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to forge requests, if this component is configured. This includes creating new privileged credentials, resulting in privilege elevation (CWE-275). Note esfadmingui is not enabled by default.

Impacted Vendors

microfocus 2

blackberry 1

Reference Links

https://community.microfocus.com/microfocus/mainframe_solutions/enterprise_server/w/knowledge_base/29131/enterprise-server-security-fixes-july-2017 https://community.microfocus.com/microfocus/mainframe_solutions/enterprise_server/w/knowledge_base/29131/enterprise-server-security-fixes-july-2017

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns