Arbitrary File Access Affecting com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl package, versions [7.2.0,7.4.0)[0,7.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMLIFERAYPORTAL-1296538
  • published25 May 2021
  • disclosed24 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-15840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-552  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl to version 7.4.0, 7.1.3 or higher.

Overview

com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl is a package part of Liferay.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Access. The property portlet.resource.id.banned.paths.regexp can be bypassed with doubled encoded URLs, which allows remote attackers to access restricted portlet resources (e.g., files within /META-INF and /WEB-IN).

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