Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2019-16891

 

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2019-16891

Published: October 4, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35194
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16891
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Liferay
Affected software:
Liferay Enterprise Portal

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

Liferay Portal CE 6.2.5 allows remote command execution because of deserialization of a JSON payload.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-16891

Install update from vendor's website.

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