GHSA-5gh9-g62h-f35m CVE-2021-33335
Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers
High
Maven
- Severity
- 7.2 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 1.31%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 70.59% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Fix
- Available
- 2 packages have a fixed version
Description
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.3 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9 allows remote authenticated users with permission to update/edit users to take over a company administrator user account by editing the company administrator user.
Affected versions
Maven
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom | >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp20 |
7.1.10.fp20 |
| com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom | >= 7.2.0, < 7.2.10.fp9 |
7.2.10.fp9 |
| com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom | >= 7.0.3, < 7.3.5 |
7.3.5 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven → 7.1.10.fp20
- maven
<dependency><groupId>com.liferay.portal</groupId><artifactId>release.dxp.bom</artifactId><version>7.1.10.fp20</version></dependency>- gradle
implementation("com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:7.1.10.fp20")
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven → 7.3.5
- maven
<dependency><groupId>com.liferay.portal</groupId><artifactId>release.portal.bom</artifactId><version>7.3.5</version></dependency>- gradle
implementation("com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:7.3.5")
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 7.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Weakness
CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design, Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
- Architecture and Design: Follow the principle of least privilege when assigning access rights to entities in a software system.
- Architecture and Design: Consider following the principle of separation of privilege. Require multiple conditions to be met before permitting access to a system resource.
CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization
The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries. Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
- Architecture and Design: Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor [REF-7].
- Architecture and Design: Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
- Architecture and Design: For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page. One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.
- System Configuration, Installation: Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.
References
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Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-2j97-4jmq-c4xf Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Reflected XSS via the selectedLanguageId Parameter | Medium | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
| GHSA-56jv-4ww3-65mw Liferay Portal is vulnerable to XSS in the Blogs widget | Medium | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
| GHSA-f5vh-4rj2-w8r8 Liferay Portal is vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks | Medium | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
| GHSA-8hw3-ghwv-crfh Liferay Portal vulnerable to password enumeration | Medium | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
| GHSA-gv7w-jh8g-vr73 Liferay Portal Does Not Limit Access to APIs Before Email Verification | Medium | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
| GHSA-gh4w-8qgq-8w9r Liferay Portal Vulnerable to CSRF in Headless APIs | Medium | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
| GHSA-xcj6-xpjg-c4xr Liferay Portal Stores Password Reset Tokens in Plain Text | Medium | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
| GHSA-vgqx-447m-wvcj Liferay Portal Vulnerable to DoS via Crafted Headless API Request | High | Also affects com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom |
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