A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) vulnerability in Directory Server (aka Enterprise Server Administration web UI) in Micro Focus Enter…

published 2017-08-21 9y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-14296

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) vulnerability in Directory Server (aka Enterprise Server Administration web UI) in Micro Focus Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Server 2.3 and earlier, 2.3 Update 1 before Hotfix 8, and 2.3 Update 2 before Hotfix 9 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to view and alter (CWE-275) configuration information and inject OS commands (CWE-78) via forged requests.

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Exploit prediction

0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Micro Focus Micro Focus Enterprise Developer, Micro Focus Enterprise Server

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

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

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-5187
NVD CVE-2017-5187

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