CVE-2020-28885 and CVE-2020-28884
How To articles are not official guidelines or officially supported documentation. They are community-contributed content and may not always reflect the latest updates to Liferay DXP. We welcome your feedback to improve How To articles!
While we make every effort to ensure this Knowledge Base is accurate, it may not always reflect the most recent updates or official guidelines.We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to reach out with any feedback or concerns.
Legacy Article
You are viewing an article from our legacy "FastTrack"
publication program, made available for informational purposes. Articles
in this program were published without a requirement for independent
editing or verification and are provided"as is" without
guarantee.
Before using any information from this article, independently verify its
suitability for your situation and project.
Issue
- We would like to know about Liferay's vulnerability to CVE-2020-28885 and CVE-2020-28884.
- The CVE's claim that it is a vulnerability for an Administrator User to be able to inject commands through the Gogo Shell module and Groovy scripts, respectively, to execute any OS command on the Liferay Portal Server.
Resolution
- Both of the CVE's (CVE-2020-28885 and CVE-2020-28884) describe intended behaviors consistent with permissions typically associated with an admin user.
- Liferay maintains that these are not vulnerabilities since it is an expected feature that administrators are allowed to access and execute commands in Gogo Shell, as well as to run Groovy scripts. Therefore are not design flaws or Vulnerabilities.
- They can both be safely ignored, or one might disable gogo shell and groovy scripts.
Additional Information:
Did this article resolve your issue ?