GHSA-mqf8-4cqm-p83x CVE-2024-25146
Liferay Portal allows attackers to discover the existence of sites
Medium
Maven
- Severity
- 5.3 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.59%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 48.35% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Fix
- Available
- 2 packages have a fixed version
Description
Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.4.1, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before service pack 3, 7.2 before fix pack 18, and older unsupported versions returns with different responses depending on whether a site does not exist or if the user does not have permission to access the site, which allows remote attackers to discover the existence of sites by enumerating URLs. This vulnerability occurs if locale.prepend.friendly.url.style=2 and if a custom 404 page is used.
Affected versions
Maven
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom | >= 7.3.0, < 7.3.10.u4 |
7.3.10.u4 |
| com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom | >= 7.2.0, < 7.2.10.fp18 |
7.2.10.fp18 |
| com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom | >= 7.2.0, < 7.4.2 |
7.4.2 |
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 → 7.3.10.u4
- maven
<dependency><groupId>com.liferay.portal</groupId><artifactId>release.dxp.bom</artifactId><version>7.3.10.u4</version></dependency>- gradle
implementation("com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:7.3.10.u4")
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven → 7.4.2
- maven
<dependency><groupId>com.liferay.portal</groupId><artifactId>release.portal.bom</artifactId><version>7.4.2</version></dependency>- gradle
implementation("com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:7.4.2")
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-203: Observable Discrepancy
The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
- Implementation: Ensure that error messages only contain minimal details that are useful to the intended audience and no one else. The messages need to strike the balance between being too cryptic (which can confuse users) or being too detailed (which may reveal more than intended). The messages should not reveal the methods that were used to determine the error. Attackers can use detailed information to refine or optimize their original attack, thereby increasing their chances of success. If errors must be captured in some detail, record them in log messages, but consider what could occur if the log messages can be viewed by attackers. Highly sensitive information such as passwords should never be saved to log files. Avoid inconsistent messaging that might accidentally tip off an attacker about internal state, such as whether a user account exists or not.
CWE-204: Observable Response Discrepancy
The product provides different responses to incoming requests in a way that reveals internal state information to an unauthorized actor outside of the intended control sphere.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
- Implementation: Ensure that error messages only contain minimal details that are useful to the intended audience and no one else. The messages need to strike the balance between being too cryptic (which can confuse users) or being too detailed (which may reveal more than intended). The messages should not reveal the methods that were used to determine the error. Attackers can use detailed information to refine or optimize their original attack, thereby increasing their chances of success. If errors must be captured in some detail, record them in log messages, but consider what could occur if the log messages can be viewed by attackers. Highly sensitive information such as passwords should never be saved to log files. Avoid inconsistent messaging that might accidentally tip off an attacker about internal state, such as whether a user account exists or not.
References
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Timeline
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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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