Avaya Experience PortalR 8.1.2 Service Pack 3 includes the following changes:
Platform Updates
Experience Portal platform has undergone significant upgrades to enhance performance, stability, and security:
JDK: Upgraded to Azul Zulu OpenJDK 17.0.14 for enhanced security and LTS support.
Security Updates
New security measures for Experience Portal are:
Apache Tomcat: Upgraded to 9.0.106 to resolve the security vulnerability - CVE-2025-31651. Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.
PostgreSQL: Upgraded to 17.4 to resolve below security vulnerabilities:
CVE-2024-10979 - Incorrect control of environment variables in PostgreSQL PL/Perl
CVE-2024-10977 - PostgreSQL libpq retains an error message from man-in-the-middle
ActiveMQ: Upgraded to 6.1.6 to resolve below security vulnerabilities:
CVE-2024-38819: Spring Framework functional endpoints vulnerable to path traversal allowing file access.
CVE-2022-22970: DoS vulnerability in Spring due to multipart file upload data binding.
CVE-2022-22971: DoS issue in Spring multipart handling like CVE-2022-22970.
CVE-2022-22950: DoS via crafted Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expressions.
Content-Security-Policy (CSP) headers: Added Content-Security-Policy headers in AEP with unsafe inline option for stronger protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) and code injection attacks.
X-XSS-Protection header: Disabled the X-XSS-Protection header, as Content-Security-Policy (CSP) now provides a more robust and modern alternative.
Missing role-based access restrictions: Added Missing-role-based access restrictions to Experience Portal for proper permission enforcement upon user role changes.
TLS v1.3: Supported for secure communication across key components such as Primary/Aux EPM, MPP, Application Server, Avaya SM, ASR/TTS Speech Server, Nuance and Google cloud servers, and POM.
SRTP sips Requirement Update: The mandatory sips requirement for SRTP (Secure Real-time Transport Protocol) is removed and is now a configurable option. SRTP encryption headings can be added if URI Scheme is set to SIP and TEL.
Vulnerability Remediation
Addressed critical vulnerabilities identified through Coverity and Black Duck scans.