Bug 1232908 – CVE-2015-3244 JSF: Information disclosure due to missing access restriction in portlet resource dispatching

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Bug 1232908 - (CVE-2015-3244) CVE-2015-3244 JSF: Information disclosure due to missing access restriction in portlet resource dispatching

Summary:	CVE-2015-3244 JSF: Information disclosure due to missing access restriction i...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-3244

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1241207 1241208 1241209
Blocks:	1213008
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Reported:	2015-06-17 15:30 EDT by Chess Hazlett
Modified:	2015-07-17 07:04 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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.
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Last Closed:	2015-07-14 15:30:35 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:1226	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0 security update	2015-07-14 16:38:00 EDT

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Description Chess Hazlett 2015-06-17 15:30:10 EDT

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 08:26:41 EDT

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-14 12:38:06 EDT

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

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