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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 437146

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2020-15842)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 437146

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/27/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15842

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15842

cwe: CWE-502