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.

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.

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Impact

A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to inject content into the email messages generated by the “Forgot Password” feature.

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Solution

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This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4737.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: January 31, 2008

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Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4737.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23888209 Feedback>).

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References

• <http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal&gt;
• <http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4737&gt;

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2008-0179
Severity Metric:	0.38 Date Public: