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medium6.1

CVE-2024-25608

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP's HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect Can Be Circumvented via Replacement Character

Impact

HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect in Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.4.3.18, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 19, 7.3 before update 4, 7.2 before fix pack 19, and older unsupported versions can be circumvented by using the 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' (U+FFFD), which allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the (1) 'redirect` parameter (2) `FORWARD_URL` parameter, (3) `noSuchEntryRedirect` parameter, and (4) others parameters that rely on HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavencom.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom>= 7.2.0, < 7.4.3.19-ga197.4.3.19-ga19
mavencom.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom< 7.2.10.fp197.2.10.fp19

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LiferayDigital Experience Platform
before 7.2
Versions 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
LiferayLiferay Portal
before 7.4.3.19

Weakness classification

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