CVE-2022-28977

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    CVE-2022-28977

    Published: 22 Sept 2022Last Modified: 5 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 through 7.4.2, and Liferay DXP 7.0 fix pack 91 through 101, 7.1 fix pack 17 through 25, 7.2 fix pack 5 through 14, and 7.3 before service pack 3 can be circumvented by using multiple forward slashes, which allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the (1) 'redirect` parameter (2) `FORWARD_URL` parameter, and (3) others parameters that rely on HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect.

    References: https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28977-htmlutil.escaperedirect-circumvention-with-multiple-forward-slash, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28977.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28977

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 4ffdd7225ef4a5fd922703263a3006a741a4d8d0
    Fixed -75354f3482d7c5edb70f4cd72ed8664ce8079842

    Affected versions

    7.4.1-ga2
    7.4.0-ga1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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