Atomicorp WAF Research Note: CVE-2024-25608

Liferay Portal - Open Redirect

CVE Details

• Already protected by existing Atomicorp WAF rules
• Protection status: Understanding Atomicorp WAF Protection Status
• CVE: CVE-2024-25608
• Name: Liferay Portal - Open Redirect
• Severity: Medium
• CVSS: 6.1 (v3.1) (Medium)
• CVSS version: 3.1
• CVSS source: N/A
• CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack vector: Network
  • Attack complexity: Low
  • Privileges required: None
  • User interaction: Required
  • Scope: Changed
  • Confidentiality impact: Low
  • Integrity impact: Low
  • Availability impact: None
• CWE: CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (‘Open Redirect’)
• Related CAPEC attack patterns (via MITRE CWE relationships): CAPEC-178 (opens in a new tab)
• Vendor: liferay
• Vulnerable products: digital experience platform , liferay portal , digital experience platform,liferay portal
• CVE published: 2024-02-20
• CVE last modified: 2026-06-17
• Affected versions (NVD configurations):
  • digital experience platform: < 7.2
  • digital experience platform: 7.2
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_1
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_10
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_11
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_12
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_13
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_14
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_15
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_16
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_17
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_18
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_2
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_3
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_4
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_5
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_6
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_7
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_8
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 fix_pack_9
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 service_pack_1
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 service_pack_2
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 service_pack_3
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 service_pack_4
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 service_pack_5
  • digital experience platform: 7.2 service_pack_6
  • digital experience platform: 7.3
  • digital experience platform: 7.3 fix_pack_1
  • digital experience platform: 7.3 fix_pack_2
  • digital experience platform: 7.3 service_pack_1
  • digital experience platform: 7.3 service_pack_3
  • digital experience platform: 7.4
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update1
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update10
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update11
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update12
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update13
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update14
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update15
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update16
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update17
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update18
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update2
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update3
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update4
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update5
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update6
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update7
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update8
  • digital experience platform: 7.4 update9
  • liferay portal: < 7.4.3.19
• EPSS: 0.0096; 59.5th percentile (FIRST (opens in a new tab) )
• Latest Update: 2026-08-28
• Selected Rule IDs observed: 398005
• Matching rules: 1; rules with blocking actions: 0
• Would-block Rule IDs: N/A
• Request surfaces inspected: JSON request data, Request arguments, SOAP request data, XML request data

Vulnerability Description

HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect in Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.4.3.18, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 19, 7.3 before update 4, 7.2 before fix pack 19, and older unsupported versions can be circumvented by using the ‘REPLACEMENT CHARACTER’ (U+FFFD), which allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the (1) ‘redirectparameter (2)FORWARD_URLparameter, (3)noSuchEntryRedirect` parameter, and (4) others parameters that rely on HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect.

Recommended Actions

1. Maintain the observed Atomicorp detections. Keep your Atomicorp commercial rules current and confirm that the selected observed rules (398005 ) have not been locally disabled. Atomicorp commercial rules are enabled by default. If you use Atomic WAF, review the applicable policy and rule settings. These observations are detection-only; review the resulting events and do not assume they block exploitation.

2. Apply the vendor’s remediation. WAF protection is defense in depth and does not replace upgrading or following the affected vendor’s guidance.

   • Affected versions: Liferay Portal versions through 7.4.3.18.
   • Affected versions: Liferay DXP versions through 7.4.13.u18.
   • Affected versions: Liferay DXP versions through 7.3.10-dxp-3.
   • Affected versions: Liferay DXP versions through 7.2.10-dxp-18.
   • No specific CNA/vendor solution or workaround is included in the current CVE Record (opens in a new tab) . Review the vendor’s security advisories and supported-release guidance before making changes.

3. Validate after changes. Confirm rule updates are current, review WAF events for the affected application, and test application behavior after vendor upgrades, mitigations, or local policy changes.

Research Notes

Atomicorp WAF protections are designed around attack techniques and exploit behaviors, allowing existing protections to apply across multiple vulnerabilities without requiring a unique rule for every CVE.

Public Vulnerability References

• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• CVE Record (opens in a new tab)
• Vendor advisory: https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2024-25608 (opens in a new tab)

Test or Research Source

• Source: http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-25608.yaml (opens in a new tab)
• Tags: cve, cve2024, digital-experience-platform, liferay, liferay-portal, open-redirect, vkev

Research Note Context

This research note documents exploit-technique analysis associated with this vulnerability and references Atomicorp WAF protections observed during engineering review, testing, or validation activities.

Atomicorp security controls are generally designed to identify and mitigate attack techniques and exploit behaviors rather than individual CVE identifiers. As a result, protections developed for one vulnerability may also apply to related attack variants and future vulnerabilities using similar techniques.

Learn More

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Organizations interested in protecting systems against exploit techniques associated with vulnerabilities such as this one can learn more about:

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