CVE-2020-13444 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Fails to Sanitize API Data

What is CVE-2020-13444?

CVE-2020-13444 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Liferay Portal, published on 10 Jun 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Liferay Portal 7.x before 7.3.2, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 92, 7.1 before fix pack 18, and 7.2 before fix pack 5 does not sanitize the information returned by the DDMDataProvider API, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain the password to REST Data Providers.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-13444?

8 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom and com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom. It affects 1 product.

Products include Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2020-13444?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to a fixed version for your release line: 7.0.10.fp92, 7.1.10.fp19 or 7.2.10.fp7.

Is CVE-2020-13444 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-13444 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Liferay Portal

• CVE-2020-7961 Liferay Portal Deserialization of Untrusted Data Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-33990 File upload in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16891 Liferay Portal Allows RCE via Deserialization of a JSON Payload Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-47797 Liferay Portal XSS with `p_l_back_url_title` on edit content page Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-13445 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution High 8.8

All Liferay Liferay Portal vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8j5r-9687-88w5.