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User authentication with username and password credentials is ineffective in OpenText (Micro Focus) Visual COBOL, COBOL Server, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Server (including product variants…

Critical CVSS 9.8
CVECVE-2023-4501
First seen2026-08-04 14:15 UTC
Disclosed2023-09-12 19:15 UTC
Last updated2026-08-04 14:15 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

User authentication with username and password credentials is ineffective in OpenText (Micro Focus) Visual COBOL, COBOL Server, Enterprise Developer, and Enterprise Server (including product variants such as Enterprise Test Server), versions 7.0 patch updates 19 and 20, 8.0 patch updates 8 and 9, and 9.0 patch update 1, when LDAP-based authentication is used with certain configurations. When the vulnerability is active, authentication succeeds with any valid username, regardless of whether the …

In-depth triage · Auto channel

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Affected products

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Lint boundary warnings (2)

The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).

  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000021287
  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000021287

Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD