CVE-2011-1571 Liferay Portal vulnerable to arbitrary command injection

What is CVE-2011-1571?

CVE-2011-1571 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Liferay Liferay Portal, published on 7 May 2011. It can be exploited over the network.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the XSL Content portlet in Liferay Portal Community Edition (CE) 5.x and 6.x before 6.0.6 GA, when Apache Tomcat is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1571?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:portal-service. It affects 1 product.

Products include Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1571?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:portal-service to 6.0.6-ga or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2011-1571 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1571 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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All Liferay Liferay Portal vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CVE-2011-1501, GHSA-rpj9-pc39-h8j8.