Liferay Portal up to 6.0.5 information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Liferay Portal up to 6.0.5. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Liferay Portal Community Edition (CE) 6.x before 6.0.6 GA, when Apache Tomcat is used, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via an entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.

The weakness was shared 05/07/2011 by Nicolas Gregoire (oss-sec). The advisory is available at openwall.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-1502 since 03/21/2011. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed in Ruby. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 59230 (Liferay Portal < 6.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses.

Upgrading to version 6.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (67428) and Tenable (59230). The entries 57378, 57377, 57376 and 57375 are related to this item.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 59230
Nessus Name: Liferay Portal < 6.0.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Portal 6.0.1

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03/29/2011 +8 days 🔍
05/07/2011 +39 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: openwall.com
Researcher: Nicolas Gregoire
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-1502 (🔍)
X-Force: 67428
Vulnerability Center: 35252 - Liferay Portal Community Edition 6.* Before 6.0.6 GA Remote File Access Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 47082 - Liferay Portal Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/06/2021 05:18
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (56), 04/13/2017 13:00 (14), 11/06/2021 05:18 (4)
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