CVE-2024-25604 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Allows Authenticated Users with View Permissions to Edit Permissions
Authenticated users can improperly edit their own permissions via the Control Panel, leading to privilege escalation and unauthorized data modification.
- 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-2024-25604?
CVE-2024-25604 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 7.4.3.4, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.4.13, 7.3 before service pack 3, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and older unsupported versions does not properly check user permissions, which allows remote authenticated users with the VIEW user permission to edit their own permission via the User and Organizations section of the Control Panel.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25604?
6 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 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | All versions | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | All versions | 7.2.10.fp17 |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | All versions | 7.2.10.fp17 |
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven | From 7.2.0 | 7.4.3.5-ga5 |
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven | From 7.2.0 | 7.4.3.5-ga5 |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2024-25604?
Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to 7.2.10.fp17 or later.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-25604 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25604 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-pw7p-3648-qqmg.