CVE-2022-28981

HIGH

Liferay Portal <7.4.3 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm

Description

Path traversal vulnerability in the Hypermedia REST APIs module in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.2 allows remote attackers to access files outside of com.liferay.headless.discovery.web/META-INF/resources via the `parameter` parameter.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product x_refsource_misc

http://liferay.com

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28981-path-traversal-vulnerability-in-hypermedia-rest-apis

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0107

EPSS Percentile 61.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-22

Status published

Products (2)

com.liferay/com.liferay.headless.discovery.web 0 - 4.0.12Maven

liferay/liferay_portal 7.4.0 - 7.4.2

Published Sep 22, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026