CVE-2020-15839

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15839
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-22 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-30 15:29:00 UTC
DescriptionLiferay Portal before 7.3.3, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 18 and 7.2 before fix pack 6, does not restrict the size of a multipart/form-data POST action, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct denial-of-service attacks by uploading large files.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-434

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 - All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_1 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_10 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_11 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_12 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_13 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_14 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_15 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_16 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_17 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_2 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_3 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_4 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_5 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_6 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_7 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_8 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_9 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 sp1 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 - All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_1 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_2 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_3 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_4 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_5 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 - All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_1 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_10 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_11 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_12 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_13 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_14 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_15 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_16 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_17 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_2 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_3 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_4 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_5 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_6 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_7 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_8 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 fix_pack_9 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.1 sp1 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 - All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_1 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_2 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_3 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_4 All All
Application Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.2 fix_pack_5 All All
Application Liferay Liferay Portal All All All All
Application Liferay Liferay Portal All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CST-7317 DoS vulnerability with multipart/form-data requests (CVE-2020-15839) CONFIRM portal.liferay.dev Vendor Advisory
Known Vulnerabilities MISC portal.liferay.dev Vendor Advisory
[LPE-17029] LSV-697: DoS vulnerability with multipart/form-data requests - Liferay Issues MISC issues.liferay.com Vendor Advisory
[LPE-17055] LSV-697: Trying to upload very large files with a multipart/formdata request can leave server without memory space - Liferay Issues MISC issues.liferay.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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