Bug 1244835 (CVE-2015-5176)

Summary:	CVE-2015-5176 PortletBridge: information disclosure via auto-dispatching of non-JSF resources
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, jcosta, jpallich, mweiler, security-response-team, theute
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was found that PortletBridge PortletRequestDispatcher did not respect security constraints set by the servlet if a portlet request asked for rendering of a non-JSF resource such as JSP or HTML. A remote attacker could use this flaw to potentially bypass certain security constraints and gain access to restricted resources.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:42:48 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1244838, 1244839, 1244840
Bug Blocks:	1244836

Description Chess Hazlett 2015-07-20 14:56:59 UTC

It was found that PortletBridge PortletRequestDispatcher did not respect security constraints set by the servlet if a portlet request asks for rendering of a non-JSF resource such as JSP or HTML.

Comment 2 Chess Hazlett 2015-08-03 14:47:49 UTC

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-08-04 17:15:18 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Portal 6.2.0

Via RHSA-2015:1543 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1543.html