Resource exhaustion in Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2020-24554
Published: September 2, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU46224
CSH Severity: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24554
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Software vendor:
Liferay
Liferay
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not limit the number of URLs that result in 404 error in the redirect module. A remote attacker can make repeated requests to non-existing pages, which may result in a denial of service condition.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.