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Liferay Portal Enterprise Admin User-Agent HTTP header XSS

Vulnerability Note VU#326065

Original Release Date: 2008-01-31 | Last Revised: 2008-01-31

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.

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.

Impact

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

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.

Vendor Information

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Liferay, Inc. Affected

Updated:  January 31, 2008

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4736.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

CVE IDs: CVE-2008-0178
Severity Metric: 5.67
Date Public: 2008-01-10
Date First Published: 2008-01-31
Date Last Updated: 2008-01-31 19:21 UTC
Document Revision: 2

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