What is CVE-2022-42123?

CVE-2022-42123 is a high-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-11-15.

How severe is CVE-2022-42123?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2022-42123

A Zip slip vulnerability in the Elasticsearch Connector in Liferay Portal 7.3.3 through 7.4.3.18, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 19 allows attackers to create or overwrite existing files on the filesystem via the installation of a malicious Elasticsearch Sidecar plugin.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.007 (49.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Liferay Digital_experience_platform — versions 7.3, 7.4
Liferay Liferay_portal
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-42123?: CVE-2022-42123 is a high-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-11-15.
How severe is CVE-2022-42123?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.