GHSA-5j86-vmpx-42pc

Liferay Portal Path Traversal Vulnerability via the Hypermedia REST APIs Module

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-28981

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	com.liferay:com.liferay.headless.discovery.web	< 4.0.12	4.0.12

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Path traversal vulnerability in the Hypermedia REST APIs module before 4.0.12 from Liferay Portal (7.4.0 through 7.4.2) allows remote attackers to access files outside of com.liferay.headless.discovery.web/META-INF/resources via the `parameter` parameter.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28981 advisory
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal package
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2022-28981-path-traversal-vulnerability-in-hype… web
https://web.archive.org/web/20220929232244/https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/co… web
http://liferay.com web