CVE-2015-5176

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-08-04
CWE:
CWE-284
Bugzilla:
1244835: CVE-2015-5176 PortletBridge: information disclosure via auto-dispatching of non-JSF resources
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.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5176 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.9
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2 RHSA-2015:1543 2015-08-04

Acknowledgements

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

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