CVE-2025-43764

Aug. 23, 2025, 5:15 a.m.

6.9
Medium

Description

Self-ReDoS (Regular expression Denial of Service) exists with Role Name search field of Kaleo Designer portlet JavaScript in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.131, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.1, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.1 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.20 and 7.4 GA through update 92, which allows authenticated users with permissions to update Kaleo Workflows to enter a malicious Regex pattern causing their browser to hang for a very long time.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Liferay
  • Liferay Portal
  • Liferay Dxp
  • 7.4.0-7.4.3.131, 7.4
  • 2024.Q4.0-2024.Q4.1, 2024.Q3.0-2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.1-2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1-2024.Q1.20

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-1333
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a liferay liferay_portal 7.4.0-7.4.3.131 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_portal 7.4 92 / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_dxp 2024.Q4.0-2024.Q4.1 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_dxp 2024.Q3.0-2024.Q3.13 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_dxp 2024.Q2.1-2024.Q2.13 / / / / / / /
a liferay liferay_dxp 2024.Q1.1-2024.Q1.20 / / / / / / /

References

https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43764

Tags

CWE-1333
security@liferay.com
2025-08-23
CVE-2025-43764

CVSS Score

6.9 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • User Interaction: PASSIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 23, 2025, 5:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 23, 2025, 5:15 a.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@liferay.com

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