CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-28981

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.07%

61th percentile - higher than 61% of all known CVEs

Summary

A Path Traversal vulnerability in the Hypermedia REST APIs module in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.2 allows remote attackers to access files outside of com.liferay.headless.discovery.web/META-INF/resources via the `parameter` parameter.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can read sensitive system or configuration files, leading to data leakage and potential privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade Liferay Portal to version 7.4.3 or later, which includes a fix for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Path traversal vulnerability in the Hypermedia REST APIs module in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.2 allows remote attackers to access files outside of com.liferay.headless.discovery.web/META-INF/resources via the `parameter` parameter.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS