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Vulnerability Note VU#767825

Liferay Portal fails to protect against CSRF

Overview

Liferay Portal fails to properly protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). This may allow a remote attacker to be able to forge requests that Liferay Portal takes action upon.

I. Description

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. Liferay Portal fails to properly protect against CSRF attacks.

II. Impact

A remote attacker may be able to forge requests that the Liferay Portal takes action upon.

III. Solution

This issue is addressed in Liferay version 4.4.0, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4739. Version 4.4.0 forces requests to be in POST format, which helps mitigate CSRF attacks.

Systems Affected
VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
Liferay, Inc.Vulnerable31-Jan-2008

References


http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal
http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4739
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery

Credit

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

Date Public:2008-01-10
Date First Published:2008-01-31
Date Last Updated:2008-01-31
CERT Advisory: 
CVE-ID(s):CVE-2008-0182
NVD-ID(s):CVE-2008-0182
US-CERT Technical Alerts: 
Metric:4.39
Document Revision:1

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