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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.kernel (GHSA-w7pm-cc4v-f3g8)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419789

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Liferay Portal prior to 7.2.1 CE GA2 allows remote attackers to
 execute arbitrary code via JSON web services (JSONWS). (CVE-2020-7961)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w7pm-cc4v-f3g8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419789

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

Percentile: 99.86

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Liferay Portal Java Unmarshalling via JSONWS RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7961

cwe: CWE-502