Liferay Portal 6.x CE RCE Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:liferay:liferay_portal";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.143054");
  script_version("2025-09-26T05:38:41+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-26 05:38:41 +0000 (Fri, 26 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-10-25 03:29:42 +0000 (Fri, 25 Oct 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-12-21 18:56:00 +0000 (Wed, 21 Dec 2022)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-16891");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Liferay Portal 6.x CE RCE Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_liferay_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("liferay/portal/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Liferay Portal is prone to a remote code execution (RCE)
  vulnerability because of deserialization of a JSON payload.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Liferay Portal versions 6.1 GA1 (6.1.10), 6.1 GA2 (6.1.20),
  6.1 GA3 (6.1.30), 6.2 GA1 (6.2.10), 7.0 (7.0.10), 7.1 (7.1.10).");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-16497");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://sec.vnpt.vn/2019/09/liferay-deserialization-json-deserialization-part-4/");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_is_less_equal(version: version, test_version: "6.1.30.ga3")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "See advisory", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "6.2.0", test_version2: "6.2.10.ga1")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "See advisory", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "7.0.0", test_version2: "7.0.10")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "See advisory", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "7.1.0", test_version2: "7.1.10")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "See advisory", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);