CVE-2024-25149 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Does Not Properly Restrict Membership to Child Site Based on Parent Site Options
Authenticated users can bypass membership restrictions to add unauthorized users to child sites, gaining elevated permissions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-25149?
CVE-2024-25149 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 20 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.4.1, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before service pack 3, 7.2 before fix pack 15, and older unsupported versions does not properly restrict membership of a child site when the "Limit membership to members of the parent site" option is enabled, which allows remote authenticated users to add users who are not a member of the parent site to a child site. The added user may obtain permission to perform unauthorized actions in the child site.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25149?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom and com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | All versions | 7.2.10.fp15 |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | All versions | 7.2.10.fp15 |
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven | From 7.2.0 | 7.4.2-ga3 |
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven | From 7.2.0 | 7.4.2-ga3 |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2024-25149?
Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to 7.2.10.fp15 or later.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-25149 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25149 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Digital Experience Platform
- CVE-2024-8980 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF in the Script Console
- CVE-2023-42496 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2023-42498 Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2024-25147 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2024-26269 Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qpgh-6v9w-vfv6.