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GHSA-VJJ4-QWCM-552H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-11-15 12:00 – Updated: 2025-09-05 19:04

Summary

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Liferay Portal

Details

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "modified": "2025-09-05T19:04:02Z",
  "published": "2022-11-15T12:00:16Z",
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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}

CVE-2022-42124 (GCVE-0-2022-42124)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-09-05 17:24

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

n/a
CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Assigner

mitre

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://liferay.com
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-v…
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17435
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17535

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GHSA-VJJ4-QWCM-552H

CVE-2022-42124 (GCVE-0-2022-42124)

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