Security Vulnerability /api/jsonws - Liferay Versions

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Fredi B, modified 5 Years ago. Junior Member Posts: 69 Join Date: 4/1/20 Recent Posts
Hello Liferay Friends,
currently we are investigating the possibility to use Liferay CE as Portal solution. 

Sadly one of our security managers came across this exploit of the liferay /jsonws API that enables attackers to even get a remote shell on the server.
https://www.synacktiv.com/posts/pentest/how-to-exploit-liferay-cve-2020-7961-quick-journey-to-poc.html

Can you provide further information if this security problem is not existing on 7.1.3 GA4 or 7.2.1 GA2 because these two versions seem to fit our requirements.

Greetings,
Fredi
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Christoph Rabel, modified 5 Years ago. Liferay Legend Posts: 1555 Join Date: 9/24/09 Recent Posts
Please read:
https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/security-patches-for-liferay-portal-6-2-7-0-and-7-1
7.2.1 GA2 is not affected, a patch exists for 7.1 GA4.
Personal opinion: For a new project I would go for 7.3. There were lots of nice fixes and improvements.