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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Liferay Portal Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42123)

Description

A Zip slip vulnerability in the Elasticsearch Connector in Liferay Portal 7.3.3 through 7.4.3.18, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 19 allows attackers to create or overwrite existing files on the filesystem via the installation of a malicious Elasticsearch Sidecar plugin.

Remediation

References

CVE-2022-42123

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2022-42123 CWE-22 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Tags

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