Bug 1232908 (CVE-2015-3244)

Summary:	CVE-2015-3244 JSF: Information disclosure due to missing access restriction in portlet resource dispatching
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Chess Hazlett <chazlett>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdawidow, chazlett, hfnukal, jpallich, jrusnack, mweiler, security-response-team, theute
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was found that JavaServer Faces PortletBridge-based portlets using GenericPortlet's default resource serving did not restrict access to resources within the web application. An attacker could set the resource ID field of a URL to potentially bypass security constraints and gain access to restricted resources.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-07-14 19:30:35 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1241207, 1241208, 1241209
Bug Blocks:	1213008

Description Chess Hazlett 2015-06-17 19:30:10 UTC

It was found that JavaServer Faces PortletBridge-based portlets using GenericPortlet's default resource serving did not restrict access to resources within the web application. An attacker could set the resource ID field of a URL to potentially bypass security constraints and gain access to restricted resources.

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-07-13 12:26:41 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Liferay, Inc. for reporting this issue.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-14 16:38:06 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Portal 6.2.0

Via RHSA-2015:1226 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1226.html