Vulnerability Note VU#888209

Liferay Portal Forgot Password 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 inject content into "Forgot Password" emails.

I. Description

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The "Forgot Password" feature of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize the User-Agent field supplied in HTTP headers. This can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject content into the email that is generated by the "Forgot Password" feature.

II. Impact

A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to inject content into the email messages generated by the "Forgot Password" feature.

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-4737.

Systems Affected

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

References

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal
http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4737

Credit

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

Date Public	01/10/2008
Date First Published	01/31/2008 02:37:33 PM
Date Last Updated	01/31/2008
CERT Advisory
CVE Name	CVE-2008-0179
US-CERT Technical Alerts
Metric	0.38
Document Revision	1

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