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Insecure deserialization In com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal-kernel

Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Liferay Portal Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Liferay Portal prior to 7.2.1 CE GA2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via JSON web services (JSONWS).

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Package
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2020-79612. NVD-2020-79613. OSV-2020-79614. GHSA-w7pm-cc4v-f3g85. GCVE-2020-7961

References

1. https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities2. https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/1179542713. https://research.checkpoint.com/2021/freakout-leveraging-newest-vulnerabilities-for-creating-a-botnet/4. http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157254/Liferay-Portal-Java-Unmarshalling-Remote-Code-Execution.html5. http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158392/Liferay-Portal-Remote-Code-Execution.html6. https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-79617. https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/483328. https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2020/CVE-2020-7961.yaml9. https://github.com/mzer0one/CVE-2020-7961-POC10. https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/liferay_java_unmarshalling.rb11. https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/blob/7.2.1-ga2/portal-kernel/bnd.bnd12. https://research.checkpoint.com/2021/freakout-leveraging-newest-vulnerabilities-for-creating-a-botnet

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