CVE-2023-32259 — Insufficient Granularity of Access Control vulnerability in OpenText™ Service Ma

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control vulnerability in OpenText™ Service Management Automation X (SMAX), OpenText™ Asset Management X (AMX) allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Service Management Automation X (SMAX) versi

01What is this vulnerability?

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control vulnerability in OpenText™ Service Management Automation X (SMAX), OpenText™ Asset Management X (AMX) allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Service Management Automation X (SMAX) versions 2020.05, 2020.08, 2020.11, 2021.02, 2021.05, 2021.08, 2021.11, 2022.05, 2022.11; and Asset Management X (AMX)…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
OpenText™	Service Management Automation X (SMAX)	2020.05, 2020.08, 2020.11, 2021.02, 2021.05, 2021.08, 2021.11, 2022.05, 2022.11
OpenText™	Asset Management X (AMX)	2021.08, 2021.11, 2022.05, 2022.11

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-03-19T15:54:11.630Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T15:10:23.989Z

09References

• portal.microfocus.com — https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000018803?language=en_US