CVE-2022-42124

HIGH7.5EPSS 1.2%

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Liferay Portal

Published: 11/15/2022Modified: 9/5/2025

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.

Affected packages (2)

  • Bitnami/liferay>= 7.3.0, <= 7.3.0, >= 7.4.0, <= 7.4.0 | >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0
  • Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom>= 7.3.2, < 7.4.3.5

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (5)