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Spring Framework Security Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, CVE-2018-1272

QUESTION: How are Liferay Digital Enterprise 7.0 and Liferay Portal affected by the Spring Framework Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2018-1271, and CVE-2018-1272? Resolution Impact to Liferay CVE-2018-1270: Liferay...

Defining Encryption Algorithms for Passwords Stored in the Database

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By default, Liferay encrypts the passwords that go into the database. The default algorithm is SHA-1 in 6.0 and 6.1 versions, which changed to PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1/160/128000 in version...

Elasticsearch and Liferay Enterprise Search Security Advisory: CVE-2018-3831

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CVE-2018-3831 reports that, "Elasticsearch Alerting and Monitoring in versions before 6.4.1 or 5.6.12 have an information disclosure issue when secrets are configured via the API. The Elasticsearch _cluster/settings...

Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability: CVE-2017-9805 and CVE-2017-12611 - REST XStream FreeMarker

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The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) have been reported for Apache Struts 2: CVE-2017-9805 CVE-2017-12611 CVE-2018-1327 - REST XStream FreeMarker CVE-2018-11776 How are Liferay DXP (both 7.0 and...

JSESSIONID Changes as Part of Liferay Security

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This article documents Liferay's position regarding the Session Identifier (JSESSIONID), including how and why a new JSESSIONID is generated. Resolution Customers doing their own security scan of the Liferay platform...

Excluding User Groups Not Part of the BaseDN In LDAP Import

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. In older versions of Liferay Portal...

Open LDAP setup guide

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. Liferay is not responsible for any instructions herein or referenced regarding these products. Any implementation of these principles...

Java NPEs in the Console When Refreshing the CAPTCHA Image

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This article documents a known issue where refreshing the CAPTCHA image causes a Java NullPointerException (NPE) to be triggered. Please note that the CAPTCHA image will still be refreshed. Steps to Reproduce Start the...

Configuring Theme-Embedded Portlets After Deploying Security-Hotfix-11-6012

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable....

WeDeploy Auth Admin Portlet in Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Packs

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When deploying Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 24, 25, 26 or 27, the WeDeploy Auth Admin portlet will appear in the Control Panel. WeDeploy is currently a beta product. The addition of this portlet will have no impact or...

Avoiding Authentication Errors With IE8 and IE9

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When a session of Liferay times-out, an...

SAML Comprehensive Quick Start Guide for Liferay Portal

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This is a comprehensive article that documents the steps for how to set up SAML on Liferay Portal 6.2 EE. In addition, this article covers the different ways that SAML can be implemented and utilized. SAML (Security...

Applying Security Update 2012-05-25 requires Tunnel-web

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This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When...

Configuring Liferay DXP as SP and OKTA as IdP

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This article documents the basic steps users need to execute in order to set up their instance of Liferay DXP as SP, and OKTA as IdP. Resolution OKTA Configuration Log in to OKTA and navigate to Admin > Add Application...

Is there a release date for implementing the Content Security Policy (CSP) at Liferay?

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Issue If CSP is in beta mode, how is Liferay protecting its system from vulnerability? Is there a timescale for when the CSP will be fully deployed in the portal? Once the CSP has been successfully implemented,...

Getting BadPaddingException errors in the logs after an upgrade

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP, javax.crypto.BadPaddingException errors appear in the logs when using 'Auto Login' feature ('Remember me'). Example error message: ERROR [AutoLoginFilter:247] Current URL /home...

"http://localhost:8080/o/oauth2/authorize" URL redirect to the Login Page

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue When accessing the OAuth2 authorization URL...

Unexpected SAML calls: com.liferay.saml.internal.servlet.filter.SpSessionTerminationSamlPortalFilter.doProcessFilter

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Issue When navigating through the portal with SAML disabled, there are a few SAML-related filters that are still being processed, leading to database calls and causing slower performance. at...

Is Liferay vulnerable to CVE-2024-38819: SpringFramework (spring-core-5.3.39)?

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Issue CVE-2024-38819: Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks (2nd report) is related to the usage of WebMvc.jar. Is Liferay vulnerable to this vulnerability? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3...

SAML Logout Issues: Multiple Login Entries and Optimistic Locking Exceptions

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Issue When a user logs out after authenticating via SAML, multiple login entries might be recorded in the audit logs. This can lead to HibernateOptimisticLockingException errors, particularly during...

LIFERAY.HEADLESS.DELIVERY scope missing or delayed in OAuth 2 applications

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Issue The LIFERAY.HEADLESS.DELIVERY scope is missing or delayed in appearing when creating or managing OAuth 2 applications. The issue can occur intermittently, with the scope sometimes appearing after a delay of...

User did not provide a valid CSRF token Error

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Issue Portlet Action requests intermittently returning a 403 error code. In the logs the following error message regarding invalid CSRF token gets printed whenever the 403 error is thrown. "User [user_id] did not provide...

Email Address Validation for Forgot Password

Issue The Forgot Password option does not validate if the user enters a correct email address. You can enter anything and the field will accept it. Two types of validation are expected: Email format validation (to...

CORS request is failing

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Issue If the user allows any origin (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *) to access the resource, the CORS request fails. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Liferay DXP 7.4 U90 2. Navigate to Control Panel > Instance...

Vulnerabilities for spring-web and spring-core

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Issue Vulnerabilities remain unresolved in spring-web and spring-core, even after a fix was applied to spring-context. For spring-web: Vulnerable component: org.springframework:spring-web:5.3.39 For spring-core:...

Audit Events filtered by date/time are not being exported accurately

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Issue When using using the Audit Export Feature, filters for date and time are not applied accurately in the resulting CSV file. The exported file may not include entries explicitly requested by the filter. For...

I want to skip OpenID Connect provider selector at sign in if there is only one provider

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Issue We want to bypass the client selection screen because there is only one OpenID Client to choose. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution There is a Feature Request opened for this which is currently under...

Link doesn't work in Knowledge base when a non-standard protocol is chosen.

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Issue When adding the notes:// protocol to a link in Knowledge Base, AntiSamy removes it and displays it as text. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, 7.3 Resolution By default, everything is sanitized by AntiSamy, with 3...

Are Unique Email Addresses Required for Authentication

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Issue Our company has a few external clients whose users have unique screen names, but all share one email address. This is causing various conflicts such as two users being unable to sign in simultaneously. The error...

The screen name cannot be an email address or a reserved word

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Issue When trying to log in with an Active Directory user, sign-in failed with the below error ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-9][BaseSamlStrutsAction:59] Screen name test@liferay.com for user 34945 must validate...

How to protect against CVE-2022-41853 vulnerability

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Issue How can I mitigate vulnerability CVE-2022-41853 regarding Liferay DXP? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 EE Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution CVE-2022-41853 : This...

Liferay Security Scanning

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Issue What procedures does Liferay follow to perform security scanning? Environment Liferay DXP Resolution Liferay uses DAST and SAST tools for scanning. Pen test and manual code reviews are performed as well....

How to Login after Blacklisting the Sign-In Portlet

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Issue We Blacklisted the Sign-In Portlet with a third-party authentication application and the admin logins were not synchronized in the process and so now we can no longer access our environment. How can we restore...

Can Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) be set for specific roles only?

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Issue We want to set up MFA for Administrators only. Is this possible with Liferay out-of-the-box? Can we target specific users to sign in using multi-factor authentication? Environment DXP 7.4 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.2 ...

How to enable CSRF Token in Liferay?

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Issue How to enable CSRF Token in order to prevent CSRF attacks in Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Liferay's p_auth token protects against CSRF and is enabled by default. Here is the main...

URL length modification / restriction

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Issue Sometimes we need to modify or restrict the length or URL Liferay generates ( for example for security custom solutions ) but Liferay has no out of the box solution for that. Environment DXP 7.2...

dtSa cookies containing special characters

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Issue As dtsa cookies are detected, are these cookies URLs cause for concern? Is there any information concerning these cookies in relation to Liferay? Use Case: As Liferay generated dtSa cookies contain the...

Liferay as SAML SP fails after switching the URL of the virtual instance

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Issue SAML configuration hasn't been working since the virtual host of the portal instance changed. Caused by: org.opensaml.ws.security.SecurityPolicyException: Request was required to be secured but was not...

SAML Authentication Issue: Message context was not authenticated when Azure AD as IDP

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Issue After enabling the SAML, when the user is trying to log in, authentication failed with the following message. ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-36][BaseSamlStrutsAction:59]...

Change the GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID cookie to expire Null

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Issue The Guest language ID cookie in Liferay has a one-year expiration, whereas the undefined cookie in the F5 balancer caused the conflict. Is there a way to modify the Cookie's duration in Liferay? Environment...

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