SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.util.java, com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428423

Description

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

- 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. (CVE-2022-28977)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428423

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28977

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28977

cwe: CWE-601

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