Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU86692

XML External Entity injection in Liferay Enterprise Portal and Liferay DXP - CVE-2024-25606

Published: February 21, 2024

Vulnerability identifier: #VU86692

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25606

CWE-ID: CWE-611

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to compromsie the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote administrator can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and obtain sensitive information or consume system resources via the Java2WsddTask._format method.

Affected software

Liferay Enterprise Portal
Liferay DXP

How to mitigate CVE-2024-25606

Install updates from vendor's website.

Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.8 ga8
Liferay DXP - addressed in versions 7.2 fix pack 20, 7.3 update 12, 7.4 update 4

External References

https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2024-25606

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