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Vulnerability Note VU#326065

Liferay Portal Enterprise Admin User-Agent HTTP header XSS

Overview

Liferay Portal contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the handling of the User-Agent HTTP header, which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to gain administrative access.

I. Description

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The Enterprise Admin Session Monitoring part of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize the User-Agent field supplied in HTTP headers.

II. Impact

A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary script within the context of the portal administrator.

III. Solution

Apply an update

This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4736.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate Updated
Liferay, Inc.Vulnerable31-Jan-2008

References


http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal
http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4736

Credit

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

Date Public01/10/2008
Date First Published01/31/2008 02:20:54 PM
Date Last Updated01/31/2008
CERT Advisory 
CVE NameCVE-2008-0178
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric5.67
Document Revision2

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