CVE-2020-24554 Open Redirect in Liferay Portal

What is CVE-2020-24554?

CVE-2020-24554 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Liferay Liferay Portal, published on 1 Sep 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The redirect module in Liferay Portal before 7.3.3 does not limit the number of URLs resulting in a 404 error that is recorded, which allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service attack by making repeated requests for pages that do not exist.

Weakness: CWE-601

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-24554?

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

Products include Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24554?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom to 7.3.3 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-24554 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-24554 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-mg53-xr8m-86hw.