CVE-2020-9523

mediumpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.009 · 58 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.86% (58th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability on Micro Focus enterprise developer and enterprise server, affecting all version prior to 4.0 Patch Update 16, and version 5.0 Patch Update 6. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to transmit hashed credentials for the user account running the Micro Focus Directory Server (MFDS) to an arbitrary site, compromising that account's security.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–8.8

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-522USprimary

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a Enterprise developer and server.≤ All version prior to version 4.0 Patch Update 16, and version 5.0 Patch Update 6.enisa_euvdEU
microfocus enterprise developer≤ 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microfocus enterprise developer= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microfocus enterprise developer= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_developer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microfocus enterprise server≤ 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microfocus enterprise server= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microfocus enterprise server= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microfocus:enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-04-17modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

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