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CVE-2020-9523

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-9523 is an insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability affecting Micro Focus Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Server versions prior to 4.0 Patch Update 16 and 5.0 Patch Update 6. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) allows an attacker to transmit hashed credentials of the Micro Focus Directory Server (MFDS) user account to an arbitrary site, leading to a complete compromise of that account. Despite its critical impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:4.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:4.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:4.0:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:4.0:update_11:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com / doc/KM03634936