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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2008.0111 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] Multiple vulnerabilities in Liferay Portal 4 February 2008 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: Liferay Portal Publisher: US-CERT Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Impact: Cross-site Scripting Cross-site Request Forgery Access: Existing Account Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2008-0178 CVE-2008-0179 CVE-2008-0180 CVE-2008-0181 CVE-2008-0182 Original Bulletin: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326065 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/888209 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/732449 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/217825 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/767825 Comment: This bulletin contains five (5) Vulnerability Notes. CVE-2008-0182 is the only Remote/Unauthenticated vulnerability. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Vulnerability Note VU#326065 Liferay Portal Enterprise Admin User-Agent HTTP header XSS Overview Liferay Portal contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the handling of the User-Agent HTTP header, which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to gain administrative access. I. Description Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The Enterprise Admin Session Monitoring part of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize the User-Agent field supplied in HTTP headers. II. Impact A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary script within the context of the portal administrator. III. Solution Apply an update This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4736. Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated Liferay, Inc. Vulnerable 31-Jan-2008 References http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4736 Credit Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Will Dormann. Other Information Date Public 01/10/2008 Date First Published 01/31/2008 02:20:54 PM Date Last Updated 01/31/2008 CERT Advisory CVE Name CVE-2008-0178 US-CERT Technical Alerts Metric 5.67 Document Revision 2 Vulnerability Note VU#888209 Liferay Portal Forgot Password User-Agent HTTP header XSS Overview Liferay Portal contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the handling of the User-Agent HTTP header, which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject content into "Forgot Password" emails. I. Description Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The "Forgot Password" feature of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize the User-Agent field supplied in HTTP headers. This can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject content into the email that is generated by the "Forgot Password" feature. II. Impact A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to inject content into the email messages generated by the "Forgot Password" feature. III. Solution Apply an update This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4737. Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated Liferay, Inc. Vulnerable 31-Jan-2008 References http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4737 Credit Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Will Dormann. Other Information Date Public 01/10/2008 Date First Published 01/31/2008 02:37:33 PM Date Last Updated 01/31/2008 CERT Advisory CVE Name CVE-2008-0179 US-CERT Technical Alerts Metric 0.38 Document Revision 1 Vulnerability Note VU#732449 Liferay Portal User Profile Greeting stored XSS Overview Liferay Portal fails to properly validate the User Profile "Greeting" value, which can allow script to execute when a user logs into the portal. I. Description Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The User Profile "Greeting" value of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize input. II. Impact An authenticated user may be able to inject script into the "Greeting" for the portal. III. Solution Apply an update This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4738. Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated Liferay, Inc. Vulnerable 31-Jan-2008 References http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4738 Credit Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Will Dormann. Other Information Date Public 01/10/2008 Date First Published 01/31/2008 02:50:36 PM Date Last Updated 01/31/2008 CERT Advisory CVE Name CVE-2008-0180 US-CERT Technical Alerts Metric 0.11 Document Revision 1 Vulnerability Note VU#217825 Liferay Portal Admin portlet Shutdown message XSS Overview Liferay Portal Admin portlet fails to properly validate input to the shutdown message, which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject script into the message displayed to all users when the server is being shut down. I. Description Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The Liferay Portal Admin portlet fails to properly sanitize input to the shutdown message. II. Impact A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to inject script into the message that is displayed to all users when the server is being shut down. III. Solution Apply an update This issue is addressed in Liferay version 4.4.0, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4739. Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated Liferay, Inc. Vulnerable 31-Jan-2008 References http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4739 Credit Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Will Dormann. Other Information Date Public 01/10/2008 Date First Published 01/31/2008 03:04:41 PM Date Last Updated 01/31/2008 CERT Advisory CVE Name CVE-2008-0181 US-CERT Technical Alerts Metric 0.38 Document Revision 1 Vulnerability Note VU#767825 Liferay Portal fails to protect against CSRF 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. I. Description Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. Liferay Portal fails to properly protect against CSRF attacks. II. Impact A remote attacker may be able to forge requests that the Liferay Portal takes action upon. III. 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. Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated Liferay, Inc. Vulnerable 31-Jan-2008 References http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4739 http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery Credit Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Will Dormann. Other Information Date Public 01/10/2008 Date First Published 01/31/2008 03:19:28 PM Date Last Updated 01/31/2008 CERT Advisory CVE Name CVE-2008-0182 US-CERT Technical Alerts Metric 4.39 Document Revision 1 - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. The mailing list you are subscribed to is maintained within your organisation, so if you do not wish to continue receiving these bulletins you should contact your local IT manager. If you do not know who that is, please send an email to auscert@auscert.org.au and we will forward your request to the appropriate person. NOTE: Third Party Rights This security bulletin is provided as a service to AusCERT's members. As AusCERT did not write the document quoted above, AusCERT has had no control over its content. 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