CVE-2022-38756 (GCVE-0-2022-38756)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-18 13:22
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • 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.
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Micro Focus Micro Focus GroupWise Web Affected: unspecified , < 18.4.2 (custom)
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Credits
Micro Focus would like to thank Stefan Pietsch from Trovent Security GmbH for their work discovering and reporting this vulnerability.
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