Known Vulnerabilities

The following vulnerabilities are known to exist in Liferay Portal CE.  Users of older releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest Liferay Portal CE release.  Patches are only produced for the latest Liferay Portal CE release.  Source code modifications may be possible on older releases, but care must be taken to backport fixes that may not apply to older releases.

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CST-7110 Path traversal vulnerability in templates

Date

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:19:00 +0000

Title

CST-7110 Path traversal vulnerability in templates

Description

Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1 contains a path traversal vulnerability in Web Content templates and Application Display Templates (ADT). The vulnerability allows any user with permission to create templates to read any file on the system.

Severity

Severity 1

Workaround

Review your portal permissions and ensure only trusted users have permission to add/edit Web Content templates and ADTs.

Notes

There is no patch available for Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1. Instead, users should upgrade to Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA2 (7.1.1) or later to fix this issue.


Vulnerabilities archive for past releases: 6.1 CE | 6.2 CE | 7.0 CE

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