Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-6517

Title: Liferay Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-6517.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Jan 23, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-6517: Directory traversal vulnerability in Liferay 5.1.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a %2E%2E (encoded dot dot) in the minifierBundleDir parameter to barebone.jsp.

Impacted Vendors

liferay 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/01/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92215 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/01/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92215

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns