What is GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9?

GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP have Insecure Deserialization Vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9 cover?

GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2020-15842. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9?

GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9?

GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9 affects 4 products, including: maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:\u003c 7.3.0; maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:\u003e= 7.0.0, \u003c 7.0.10.fp90; maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:\u003e= 7.1.0, \u003c 7.1.10.fp17; maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:\u003e= 7.2.0, \u003c 7.2.10.fp5.

GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9HighCVSS 8.1

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP have Insecure Deserialization Vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 24, 2022

Last Modified

May 28, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2020-15842 →

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products4

maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:< 7.3.0
maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.10.fp90
maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp17
maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.10.fp5

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15842
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-16963
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/119317427
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mg3r-9jh8-33r9