CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-15842

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Jul 20, 2020 | Modified: May 13, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Liferay Portal before 7.3.0, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 90, 7.1 before fix pack 17, and 7.2 before fix pack 5, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized payloads, because of insecure deserialization.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_13 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_13 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_14 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_14 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_24 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_24 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_25 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_25 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_26 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_26 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_27 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_27 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_28 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_28 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_3 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_3 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_30 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_30 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_33 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_33 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_35 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_35 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_36 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_36 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_39 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_39 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_40 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_40 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_41 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_41 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_42 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_42 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_43 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_43 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_44 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_44 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_45 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_45 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_46 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_46 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_47 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_47 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_48 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_48 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_49 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_49 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_50 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_50 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_51 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_51 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_52 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_52 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_53 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_53 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_54 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_54 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_56 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_56 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_57 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_57 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_58 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_58 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_59 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_59 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_60 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_60 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_61 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_61 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_64 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_64 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_65 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_65 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_66 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_66 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_67 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_67 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_68 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_68 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_69 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_69 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_70 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_70 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_71 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_71 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_72 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_72 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_73 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_73 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_75 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_75 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_76 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_76 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_78 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_78 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_79 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_79 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_80 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_80 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.0-fix_pack_81 (including) 7.0-fix_pack_81 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_1 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_1 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_10 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_10 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_11 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_11 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_12 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_12 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_13 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_13 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_14 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_14 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_15 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_15 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_16 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_16 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_2 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_2 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_3 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_3 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_4 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_4 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_5 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_5 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_6 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_6 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_7 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_7 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_8 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_8 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.1-fix_pack_9 (including) 7.1-fix_pack_9 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.2 (including) 7.2 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.2-fix_pack_1 (including) 7.2-fix_pack_1 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.2-fix_pack_2 (including) 7.2-fix_pack_2 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.2-fix_pack_3 (including) 7.2-fix_pack_3 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.2-fix_pack_4 (including) 7.2-fix_pack_4 (including)
Digital_experience_platform Liferay 7.2-fix_pack_5 (including) 7.2-fix_pack_5 (including)
Liferay_portal Liferay * 7.3.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

  • Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
  • An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

References