High
Security advisory
In Liferay Portal before 7.3.2 and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 92, 7.1 before fix pack 18, and 7.2 before fix pack 6, the template API does not restrict user access to sensitive objects, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via crafted FreeMarker and Velocity templates.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13445
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Liferay Portal before 7.3.2 and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 92, 7.1 before fix pack 18, and 7.2 before fix pack 6, the template API does not restrict user access to sensitive objects, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via crafted FreeMarker and Velocity templates.
osv:CVE-2020-13445
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-13445",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-13445",
"summary": "In Liferay Portal before 7.3.2 and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 92, 7.1 before fix pack 18, and 7.2 before fix pack 6, the template API does not restrict user access to sensitive objects, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via crafted FreeMarker and Velocity templates.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-13445",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2020-13445",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-13445",
"GHSA-v377-8f8f-532h"
],
"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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},
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},
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}
],
"versions": [
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"7.1-ga2",
"7.1-ga3",
"7.2-ga1",
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],
"database_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:16.102250651Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17023",
"https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/119317411",
"https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-043-liferay_ce"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
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"value": "CVE-2020-13445",
"evidence": "/id"
}
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429284,
"published_at": "2020-06-10T19:15:09.943+00:00"
}