Uncontrolled external site redirect In com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom

Description

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect Can Be Circumvented HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 through 7.4.2, and Liferay DXP 7.0 fix pack 91 through 101, 7.1 fix pack 17 through 25, 7.2 fix pack 5 through 14, and 7.3 before service pack 3 can be circumvented by using multiple forward slashes, which allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the (1) 'redirectparameter (2)FORWARD_URL` parameter, and (3) others parameters that rely on HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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