CVE-2011-1502

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-05-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Liferay Portal Community Edition (CE) 6.x before 6.0.6 GA, when Apache Tomcat is used, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via an entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.

Affected products

Liferay Portal: from 6.0.0 through 6.0.5

References

http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-14927
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/29/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/08/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/9
http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-14927
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/29/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/08/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/9

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