Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Liferay Portal Admin portlet Shutdown message XSS
Informations
Name VU#217825 First vendor Publication 2008-01-31
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2008-01-31
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#217825

Liferay Portal Admin portlet Shutdown message XSS

Overview

Liferay Portal Admin portlet fails to properly validate input to the shutdown message, which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject script into the message displayed to all users when the server is being shut down.

I. Description

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The Liferay Portal Admin portlet fails to properly sanitize input to the shutdown message.

II. Impact

A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to inject script into the message that is displayed to all users when the server is being shut down.

III. Solution

Apply an update

This issue is addressed in Liferay version 4.4.0, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4739.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate Updated
Liferay, Inc.Vulnerable31-Jan-2008

References


http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal
http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4739

Credit

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

Date Public01/10/2008
Date First Published01/31/2008 03:04:41 PM
Date Last Updated01/31/2008
CERT Advisory 
CVE NameCVE-2008-0181
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric0.38
Document Revision1

Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/217825

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
41337 Liferay Portal Admin Portlet Shutdown Message XSS