Vulnerability Note VU#326065

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.

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.

Impact

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

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 (Learn More)

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Liferay, Inc.	Affected	-	31 Jan 2008

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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group	Score	Vector
Base	N/A	N/A
Temporal	N/A	N/A
Environmental	N/A	N/A

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

• CVE IDs: CVE-2008-0178
• Date Public: 10 Jan 2008
• Date First Published: 31 Jan 2008
• Date Last Updated: 31 Jan 2008
• Severity Metric: 5.67
• Document Revision: 2