Disk consumption in Liferay Enterprise Portal - #VU12203
Published: April 26, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12203
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Liferay
Affected software:
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system
The weakness exists due to an error when using Xuggler. A remote attacker can create a large number of temporary files during video playback when Xuggler is enabled for video conversion, trigger disk consumption and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Update to version 7.0 CE GA6 (7.0.5) or later.