CVE-2022-38756 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A vulnerability has been identified in Micro Focus GroupWise Web in versions prior to 18.4.2. The GW Web component makes a request to the Post Office Agent that contains sensitive information in the query parameters that could be logged by any intervening HTTP proxies.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00226.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Microfocus	Groupwise

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:groupwise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-41319	A vulnerability has been identified in Micro Focus GroupWise Web in versions prior to 18.4.2. The GW Web component makes a request to the Post Office Agent that contains sensitive information in the query parameters that could be logged by any intervening HTTP proxies.

Fixes

Solution

Micro Focus has made the following mitigation information available to resolve the vulnerability for the impacted versions of Micro Focus GroupWise: Please update to Micro Focus GroupWise 18.4.2 or newer

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170768/Micro-Focus-GroupWise-Session-ID-Disclosure.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/28
https://packetstorm.news/files/id/170768
https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000012374?language=en_US
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/28

History

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://packetstorm.news/files/id/170768 https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/28
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microfocus

Published: 2022-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-18T13:22:18.809Z

Reserved: 2022-08-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-38756

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.534Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-16T23:15:09.703

Modified: 2025-04-18T14:15:18.953

Link: CVE-2022-38756

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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