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 Enterprise Admin User-Agent HTTP header XSS
Informations
Name VU#326065 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#326065

Liferay Portal Enterprise Admin 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 gain administrative access.

I. Description

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The Enterprise Admin Session Monitoring part of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize the User-Agent field supplied in HTTP headers.

II. Impact

A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary script within the context of the portal administrator.

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-4736.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate Updated
Liferay, Inc.Vulnerable31-Jan-2008

References


http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal
http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4736

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 02:20:54 PM
Date Last Updated01/31/2008
CERT Advisory 
CVE NameCVE-2008-0178
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric5.67
Document Revision2

Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326065

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
41334 Liferay Portal Enterprise Admin Session Monitoring Component User-Agent HTTP ...