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Liferay Portal fails to protect against CSRF

Vulnerability Note VU#767825

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

Overview

Liferay Portal fails to properly protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). This may allow a remote attacker to be able to forge requests that Liferay Portal takes action upon.

Description

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. Liferay Portal fails to properly protect against CSRF attacks.

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to forge requests that the Liferay Portal takes action upon.

Solution

This issue is addressed in Liferay version 4.4.0, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4739. Version 4.4.0 forces requests to be in POST format, which helps mitigate CSRF attacks.

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 version 4.4.0, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4739. Version 4.4.0 forces requests to be in POST format, which helps mitigate CSRF attacks.

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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-2008-0182
Severity Metric: 4.39
Date Public: 2008-01-10
Date First Published: 2008-01-31
Date Last Updated: 2008-01-31 20:20 UTC
Document Revision: 1

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