CVE-2022-38756CVE-2022-38756 vulnerability in GW Web prior to 18.4.2
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.89%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
References tagged exploit2 references
Timeline
ID reserved
By microfocus
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microfocusCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.89% · top 40% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
Micro Focus · Micro Focus GroupWise Web
- affected unspecified – < 18.4.2
What to do
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
References
References5
- https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000012374?language=en_US (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170768/Micro-Focus-GroupWise-Session-ID-Disclosure.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 20230130 Trovent Security Advisory 2203-01 / Micro Focus GroupWise transmits session ID in URL (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/28 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://packetstorm.news/files/id/170768 (opens in a new tab)exploit
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-41319 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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