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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Liferay Portal

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 15, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 17, 2023

Package

maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 7.3.2, < 7.4.3.5

Patched versions

7.4.3.5

Description

ReDoS vulnerability in LayoutPageTemplateEntryUpgradeProcess in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.4.3.4 and Liferay DXP 7.2 fix pack 9 through fix pack 18, 7.3 before update 4, and DXP 7.4 GA allows remote attackers to consume an excessive amount of server resources via a crafted payload injected into the 'name' field of a layout prototype.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 15, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 15, 2022
Reviewed Nov 21, 2022
Last updated Aug 17, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-42124

GHSA ID

GHSA-vjj4-qwcm-552h

Source code

No known source code
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