A vulnerability was found in Liferay Enterprise Portal up to 4.3.5. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Admin portlet in Liferay Portal before 4.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to perform unspecified actions as unspecified other authenticated users via the Shutdown message.

The weakness was released 02/04/2008 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-0182 since 01/09/2008. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 4.3.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Secunia (SA28742†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-40820, VDB-40819, VDB-40818 and VDB-40817.

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• Enterprise Resource Planning Software

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• Liferay

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• Enterprise Portal

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• 4.3.0
• 4.3.1
• 4.3.2
• 4.3.3
• 4.3.4
• 4.3.5

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• open-source

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