Liferay Portal/Liferay DXP deserialization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP. Impacted is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to deserialization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-15842. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Liferay Portal before 7.3.0, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 90, 7.1 before fix pack 17, and 7.2 before fix pack 5, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized payloads, because of insecure deserialization.

The weakness was disclosed 07/20/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at issues.liferay.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-15842 since 07/20/2020. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Deserialization
CWE: CWE-502 / CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

07/20/2020 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: issues.liferay.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2020-15842 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-15842
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-158812
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/20/2020 07:53
Updated: 05/14/2025 01:06
Changes: 07/20/2020 07:53 (36), 07/20/2020 07:58 (11), 11/04/2020 21:26 (1), 05/14/2025 01:06 (36)
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