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.
Description
Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. Liferay Portal fails to properly protect against CSRF attacks. |
Impact
A remote attacker may be able to forge requests that the Liferay Portal takes action upon. |
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 (Learn More)
Vendor | Status | Date Notified | Date Updated |
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Liferay, Inc. | Affected | - | 31 Jan 2008 |
CVSS Metrics (Learn More)
Group | Score | Vector |
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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-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
- CVE IDs: CVE-2008-0182
- Date Public: 10 Jan 2008
- Date First Published: 31 Jan 2008
- Date Last Updated: 31 Jan 2008
- Severity Metric: 4.39
- Document Revision: 1
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