CVE-2021-33335
HIGH7.2EPSS 0.63%Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers
Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 5/28/2025
Description
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.0.3 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9 allows remote authenticated users with permission to update/edit users to take over a company administrator user account by editing the company administrator user.
Affected packages (2)
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp20
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom>= 7.0.3, < 7.3.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (4)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33335
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttps://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17103
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220828222916/https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120747906