{"vuid":"VU#888209","idnumber":"888209","name":"Liferay Portal Forgot Password User-Agent HTTP header XSS","keywords":["Liferay","css","cross-site scripting","csrf","cross-site request forgery","session hijacking","admin portal","Enterprise Admin Portlet"],"overview":"Liferay Portal contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the handling of the User-Agent HTTP header, which can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject content into \"Forgot Password\" emails.","clean_desc":"Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The \"Forgot Password\" feature of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize the User-Agent field supplied in HTTP headers. This can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to inject content into the email that is generated by the \"Forgot Password\" feature.","impact":"A remote, authenticated attacker may be able to inject content into the email messages generated by the \"Forgot Password\" feature.","resolution":"Apply an update\nThis issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4737.","workarounds":"","sysaffected":"","thanks":"Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.","author":"This document was written by Will Dormann.","public":["http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal","http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4737"],"cveids":["CVE-2008-0179"],"certadvisory":"","uscerttechnicalalert":null,"datecreated":"2008-01-31T19:21:49Z","publicdate":"2008-01-10T00:00:00Z","datefirstpublished":"2008-01-31T19:37:34Z","dateupdated":"2008-01-31T19:39:46Z","revision":2,"vrda_d1_directreport":"1","vrda_d1_population":"2","vrda_d1_impact":"2","cam_widelyknown":"11","cam_exploitation":"0","cam_internetinfrastructure":"10","cam_population":"6","cam_impact":"1","cam_easeofexploitation":"16","cam_attackeraccessrequired":"10","cam_scorecurrent":"0.378","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknown":"0.54","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknownexploited":"0.9","ipprotocol":"","cvss_accessvector":"","cvss_accesscomplexity":"","cvss_authentication":null,"cvss_confidentialityimpact":"","cvss_integrityimpact":"","cvss_availabilityimpact":"","cvss_exploitablity":null,"cvss_remediationlevel":"","cvss_reportconfidence":"","cvss_collateraldamagepotential":"","cvss_targetdistribution":"","cvss_securityrequirementscr":"","cvss_securityrequirementsir":"","cvss_securityrequirementsar":"","cvss_basescore":"","cvss_basevector":"","cvss_temporalscore":"","cvss_environmentalscore":"","cvss_environmentalvector":"","metric":0.378,"vulnote":null}